RE: [osint] Terror attack in Bulgaria / German politician comment
No surprise here...Muslims and Nazis have always been aligned and allies. B -Original Message- From: osint@yahoogroups.com [mailto:osint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dietmar Muehlboeck Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 8:42 AM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: [osint] Terror attack in Bulgaria / German politician comment Commenting the terror attack targeting Israelis in Birgas/Bulgaria on Jul 18 2012, Ruprecht Polenz, chairman of the foreign committee of the lower house of the German Parliament, called the victims Israeli Terrorists in a radio interview today. http://ondemand-mp3.dradio.de/file/dradio/2012/07/19/dlf_20120719_0651_b039f 5d9.mp3 -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Fringe Intelligence Journals
I highly recommend Roger's journals. -B From: Roger Vleugels roger.vleug...@planet.nl Dear intelligence specialist, I publish two specialist email journals which might be of interest to you. They are free of charge - Interested? Mail: START FRINGE Two journals Fringe Intelligence gathers intelligence news from established media and outlets beyond the mainstream. The journal offers articles covering classical intelligence and counterintelligence, criminal and private espionage and more. The main focus of Fringe Intelligence is on forensic and operational information, and not on bureaucracy, politics and the formal/legal aspects of intelligence. Fringe Intelligence does not concentrate on terrorism. Special sections highlight NARINT, or Natural Resources Intelligence [dealing with energy, rare earth, water and climate intelligence], and Intelligence 2.0 [IT sector-generated private intelligence]. These sections look beyond jihad, cyber and other previous or present threats. Fringe Spitting publishes for freedom of information [FOI] specialists, investigative journalists and other researchers, with a special focus on FOI practitioners and requesters, news on caseload, jurisprudence, litigation, tools and trends. Space is also devoted to recently disclosed old news on intelligence, revealed via FOI requests. Taken together, the two biweekly journals contain about 100 articles per month selected from a variety of media sources. Almost all articles are internet downloads. Over 90% are in English. Less than 10% are focused on the Netherlands. The contents stand or fall with the quality of the source. 2,900 subscribers In terms of circulation, both Fringe journals enjoy a top ranking in their sector, respectively OSINT and FOI, among the worldwide communities of independent email journals and mailing lists. Sixty percent of the subscribers are intelligence specialists, 25% journalists and 15% FOIA specialists. They live in 108 countries: 35% in NL, 5% in UK, 25% in US and 35% in the rest of the world. Fifteen percent of the subscribers are government employees [half of whom work in intelligence services] and 15% are employed by universities and colleges. About the editor/publisher: Roger Vleugels In 1986, I started my own office in The Netherlands and began working as a legal advisor and lecturer specialized in freedom of information and intelligence. In 2001, I added the publishing of the Fringe journals. I lecture on investigative journalism, FOI and FOIAs at journalism schools, universities and in company. I have taught students in or from Argentina, Aruba, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Iran, Ireland, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey and the UK. Since 1988, I have as legal advisor / acting lawyer filed for or with my clients more than 4,000 FOIA requests. Most of these clients are journalists in the Netherlands but also special interest groups, NGOs, researchers and private persons. As an intelligence specialist, I research and lecture on this topic. I also comment in the press, brief members of parliament and advise journalists and lawyers. Surfing, searching, stringers and sources Articles are gathered for Fringe by a small group of Dutch and foreign stringers, some of whom work covertly. Without the work of these stringers Fringe would not be possible. Additionally I do some of the gathering on my own, mainly by netsurfing and maintaining a range of subscriptions, feeds and alerts. Some of the more specialised sources are: Access Info Europe, AIP Bulgaria, Article 19, BeSpacific, Bigwobber, Bits of Freedom, Centre for Law Democracy, Cryptogram, CFOI, Cryptome, EDRi-gram, EFF, EPIC, FOIANet, FreedomInfo, Geheim, Infowarrior, Intelforum, Intelligence Online, Memory Hole, Mother Jones, National Security Archive, NatoWatch, NISA, Privacy International, RCFP, Secrecy News, StateWatch, Terrorism Monitor and Wired. Subscription and contribution Every subscription encloses both journals; and is free of charge. A voluntary contribution however is welcome. To start a subscription, mail: START FRINGE. [To stop, mail: STOP FRINGE.] Kind regards, Roger Vleugels + Forensic intelligence researcher + Lecturer and legal advisor freedom of information + Publisher of the Fringe journals [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically
[osint] Islamizing the Hospitals: Muslima Cries Religious Discrimination after Hospital Refuses to Engage in Gender Discrimination - Atlas Shrugs
Muslims are trying really, really hard to be the victims, and the media are trying really, really hard to make their wish come true. http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/09/islamicizing-the-hos pitals-muslima-cries-religious-discrimination-after-hospital-refuses-to-enga ge-i.html September 24, 2011 Islamizing the Hospitals: Muslima Cries Religious Discrimination after Hospital Refuses to Engage in Gender Discrimination More demands and special accommodations for Islamic supremacism in the workplace -- this is nothing more than forcing, imposing Islam on the secular marketplace. Muslim Convert Janice Brown Cries http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2011/09/muslim-convert-janice-brown-cries.h tml Religious Discrimination after Hospital Refuses to Engage in Gender Discrimination Answering Muslims Muslims are trying really, really hard to be the victims, and the media are trying really, really hard to make their wish come true. Janice Brown is a convert to Islam. Based on her reading of the Qur'an, she believes that it would be a sin to take off her clothes in the presence of a male doctor. Hence, when she needed treatment for hemorrhoidal bleeding, she requested a female doctor. The hospital, however, refused to discriminate based on gender. That is, they refused to seek out a female doctor for Brown when a perfectly capable male doctor was available. The result? Brown is now claiming that, by refusing to discriminate against a doctor based on gender, the hospital discriminated against a Muslim based on religion. The media are supporting her, and the hospital is launching an investigation. Now for the hilarious part. In the video below, Brown quotes from the Mohsin Khan translation of Surah 24:31 to explain why she can't take off her clothes in front of a male doctor. Apparently, no one over at Fox News bothered to read the entire verse when they decided to take Brown's discrimination claim seriously. The verse reads: And tell the believing women to lower their gaze (from looking at forbidden things), and protect their private parts (from illegal sexual acts, etc.) and not to show off their adornment except only that which is apparent (like palms of hands or one eye or both eyes for necessity to see the way, or outer dress like veil, gloves, head-cover, apron, etc.), and to draw their veils all over Juyubihinna (i.e. their bodies, faces, necks and bosoms, etc.) and not to reveal their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husband's fathers, their sons, their husband's sons, their brothers or their brother's sons, or their sister's sons, or their (Muslim) women (i.e. their sisters in Islam), or the (female) slaves whom their right hands possess, or old male servants who lack vigour, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex. And let them not stamp their feet so as to reveal what they hide of their adornment. And all of you beg Allah to forgive you all, O believers, that you may be successful. Notice that this translation commands Brown to cover her face (except for one or both eyes). Yet when she's being interviewed for her anti-Muslim discrimination clip, she wears a simple hijab: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-il0eK_JqHgU/Tn1M8GIjZQI/Abc/dP_U3tw3ZfU/s 1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2011-09-23%2Bat%2B10.54.46%2BPM.png http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-il0eK_JqHgU/Tn1M8GIjZQI/Abc/dP_U3tw3ZfU/s4 00/Screen%2BShot%2B2011-09-23%2Bat%2B10.54.46%2BPM.png Notice also that the translation she quotes never says it's okay for female doctors to examine her. The Mohsin Khan translation only allows certain men, Muslim women, female slaves, and children to see Brown's adornment. Hence, her request to the hospital should have gone something like this: I need to see a doctor. But I will only allow a doctor to examine me if the doctor is my husband, or my father, or my husband's father, or my son, or my husband's son, or my brother, or my brother's son, or my sister's son, or my sister in Islam, or my female slave, or an old male servant who lacks vigor, or a small child. And if you do not provide me with such a doctor, you are a hate-mongering, Islamophobic bigot who is discriminating against my religion! On a side note, I have to ask a question. What's more disturbing: (a) letting a trained male medical doctor treat your hemorrhoidal bleeding, or (b) letting your son, your stepson, your nephew, old men, and young children look at your vagina? According to Brown, (b) is perfectly acceptable, while (a) is an abomination. Strange religion she converted to. Muslim Woman: Hospital Mocked Her Faith: MyFoxPHILLY.com http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/muslim-woman:-hospital-mocke d-her-faith FOXNEWS--A Muslim woman says she was forced to leave Abington Memorial Hospital without the care she needed, after a hospital staffer insulted her religion. Janice Brown, 25, is a convert to the Islamic faith. And she suffers from periodic hemmoroidal
[osint] Life After An EMP Attack: No Power, No Food, No Transportation, No Banking And No Internet
http://tinyurl.com/6z2b9l4 Life After An EMP Attack: No Power, No Food, No Transportation, No Banking And No Internet http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011092514576/editorial/us-opinion-and-editori al/life-after-an-emp-attack-no-power-no-food-no-transportation-no-banking-an d-no-internet.html Sunday, 25 September 2011 07:10 Right Side News http://www.rightsidenews.com/component/option,com_mailto/link,e2df3edf4c6c0 6e7203894675ff44a09b0ea9eb3/tmpl,component/ E-mail http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011092514576/editorial/us-opinion-and-editori al/life-after-an-emp-attack-no-power-no-food-no-transportation-no-banking-an d-no-internet/print.html Print http://www.rightsidenews.com/pdf/2011092514576/editorial/us-opinion-and-edi torial/life-after-an-emp-attack-no-power-no-food-no-transportation-no-bankin g-and-no-internet.pdf PDF Most Americans do not know this, but a single EMP attack could potentially wipe out most of the electronics in the United States and instantly send this nation back to the 1800s. If a nuclear bomb was exploded high enough in the atmosphere over the middle part of the country, the electromagnetic pulse would fry electronic devices from coast to coast. The damage would be millions of times worse than 9/11. Just imagine a world where nobody has power, most cars will not start, the Internet has been fried, the financial system is offline indefinitely, nobody can make any phone calls and virtually all commerce across the entire country is brought to a complete stop. Life-After-An-EMP-Attack-No-Power-No-Food-No-Transportation-No-Banking-And-N o-Internet-250x150A nation that does not know how to live without technology would be almost entirely stripped of it at that point. Yes, this could really happen. An EMP attack is America's Achilles heel, and everyone around the world knows it. It is only a matter of time before someone uses an EMP weapon against us, and at this point we are pretty much completely unprepared. The sad thing is that we are spending hundreds of billions of dollars hunting down terrorists in caves on the other side of the globe and we have been told that because of national security it is necessary for our private areas to be touched before we are allowed to get on an airplane, but our government is doing essentially nothing to address what is perhaps our biggest security vulnerability. . What would you and your neighbors do if the power went out and it did not ever come back on? . What would you do if an EMP attack happened in the middle of the winter and you suddenly were not able to heat your home any longer? . What would you do if all the electronics in your car got fried and you simply could not drive anywhere? . What would you do if all the supermarkets in your area shut down because food could not be transported across the country anymore? . What would you do if you were suddenly unable to call your family and friends for help? . What would you do if you were suddenly unable to get the medicine that you needed? . What would you do if your debit cards and credit cards simply did not work any longer and you could not get any of your money out of the bank? . What would you do if all of these things happened all at once? A single EMP attack would be the worst disaster that the United States has ever seen by far. An electromagnetic pulse could potentially fry the vast majority of all the microchips in the United States. In an instant, nearly all of our electronic devices would be rendered useless. Yes, the federal government knows all about this. The following excerpt is from an April 2008 report http://www.scribd.com/doc/11562771/Electromagnetic-Pulse-Attack-A2473-EMP-C ommission by the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack The consequences of lack of food, heat (or air conditioning), water, waste disposal, medical, police, fire fighting support, and effective civil authority would threaten society itself. Most of us have become completely and totally dependent on electricity and technology. Without it, most of us would be in huge trouble. The following is how an article in the Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1190331/posts described the potential consequences of an EMP attack No American would necessarily die in the initial attack, but what comes next is potentially catastrophic. The pulse would wipe out most electronics and telecommunications, including the power grid. Millions could die for want of modern medical care or even of starvation since farmers wouldn't be able to harvest crops and distributors wouldn't be able to get food to supermarkets. Commissioner Lowell Wood calls EMP attack a giant continental time machine that would move us back more than a century in technology to the late 1800s. It wouldn't be so bad if we had the knowledge and the infrastructure to live the way
[osint] Cairo, Egypt and Cairo, Illinois
Illinoishttp://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MI20Ak01.html http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=wus7micabet=1107771363619s=2577e=001Y1CAYm sj_mJik6-DLHaU7vh_srsf3kEJsfZEqWvuZGbAXATbYkZ71No02wWcR-kziqJnqv5boQDRgnH71S xJ4FvWNoj1X4i2q8FuBCAcbefhhNZDKsrvd3ZhHIiwmO9aHqdSQDoGF07_X95WubaypFYs5gL5yG 8t SPENGLER Cairo, Egypt and Cairo, Illinois By Spengler Only half of the 51 million Egyptians between the ages of 15 and 64 are counted in the government's measure of the labor force, which is why the official unemployment rate stands at only 11%. America's labor force of 153 million, by contrast, comprises three-quarters of the population aged 15 to 64. If Egypt's labor force were counted in the same way as America's, the unemployment rate would be 40%. The effective unemployment rate is even higher, for three-fifths of Egyptians live on the land, while the country imports half its caloric consumption. Agriculture productivity in Egypt is so poor that most farm labor must be considered disguised unemployment. 30% of Egyptians of the relevant age, moreover, attend university, while only half graduate, and of those, few find employment. Perhaps an additional 3 million Egyptian unemployed are warehoused in the university system. More than half of Egypt's population has nothing to do, and lives on one form or another of public subsidy. The world economy does not want them. With a 45% rate of effective illiteracy, Egyptians are unfit for modern factory work, and the products of the university system mostly are unqualified for engineering or administrative jobs. As Egypt's state finances disintegrate under conditions of unrest, the position of the redundant half of the country's people is becoming desperate. It is hard to see how a catastrophe can be avoided now that Egypt's tourism industry has dried up. Cairo, Egypt - the site of President Barack Obama's effusive address to the Muslim world in June 2009 - is becoming the world's epicenter of despair. Five years earlier, as a candidate for Illinois State Senate , Obama also spoke in Cairo, Illinois, at the southern tip of the state where the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers converge. It merited a mention in his campaign book The Audacity of Hope: We discussed what might be done to restart the area's economy and get more money into the schools; we heard about sons and daughters on their way to Iraq and the need to tear down an old hospital that had become a blight on downtown. A third of Cairo's population lives below the poverty line and its unemployment rate is 12%. Three-fifths of its people are African-American. Obama singled it out as a subject for hope and change. There is a component of the American population whose marginalization compares to Egypt, and that is African-Americans aged 16 to 19 years. Their official unemployment rate is 46.5%, although the effective rate is much higher, for only 13% of blacks in that age bracket actually have jobs. Only a quarter of black high school seniors will graduate college. Cairo, Egypt and Cairo, Illinois have another thing in common: their economic misery is the outcome of political models that warehouse the poor rather than prepare them for productivity. Like most Third World dictators, the rulers of Egypt from Nasser to Mubarak kept most of their people poor, illiterate, and down on the farm, while employing the putative higher education system as a political pressure valve. Starting with the Johnson administration, America's incipient welfare state made the poor, and especially the African-American poor, dependent on a political regime that encouraged economic dependency. That is why the people of Cairo, Egypt and Cairo, Illinois are starving in the midst of plenty. There are plenty of jobs for people who can read the new edition of the manual. Just 4% of Americans with a four-year college degree or better are unemployed, a remarkable fact given the mediocre quality of American university graduates. Evidently, basic reading comprehension, basic math and the ability to produce work on time are sufficient qualifications for a job in corporate America. The world economy, meanwhile, can't get enough qualified labor, while it ignores the untrained, semi-literate victims of state dependency. A 2011 survey by the Manpower Group, the world's largest human resources firm, reports: Despite the slow and uneven recovery from the global economic downturn and lingering high levels of unemployment in many markets, organizations around the world still report that they cannot find the talent they need when they need it. They are looking for evermore specific skill sets and taking longer to fill job vacancies as they wait for the economy to fully rebound and their businesses to get back to ''normal.'' But global economic forces have strained existing models and systems to such a point of tension that they are no longer sustainable. There will be no return to the pre-recession ''business as usual.'' The Manpower Group
[osint] The World According to Ahmadinejad
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/world-according-ahmadinejad_594038.html? nopager=1 http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=wus7micabet=1107771363619s=2577e=001Y1CAYm sj_mLSjmLoS-W8GeHlYQpH8AuygjuXyp3nZBlz6mUQ-oVvrXUCV9zsYAlBWcp0leSYvSTf8hfm7G Vn1w8xzNghq112xE6zZZA536HH2aO9R0XZPrpZe86EwP_iH9hz99et9bK6oahLwDavDHd9E0vm0r IqCzrwlLAd5g_5ZVdMLdqYsLcXAnc-ejxDWBKe0RLY7FM= The World According to Ahmadinejad 9:00 AM, SEP 22, 2011 . BY ASH JAIN As Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's prepares to speak at the United Nations, it is tempting to dismiss his anti-American rants as just another propaganda stunt. But what makes his remarks difficult to ignore is that large segments of the Iranian population will buy into them. And that Ahmadinejad, along with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameini and Iran's clerical leadership, appear to believe what they are saying - fueling a narrative that drives Iran's reckless international behavior. The notion that the U.S. government deliberately conspired to attack its own people on 9/11 as a pretext for global warfare-a notion Ahmadinejad famously peddles-strikes most reasonable observers as preposterous. Yet such an account fits seamlessly into the overarching worldview of Iran's leaders. This worldview, articulated in letters, speeches, and statements at home and abroad, is marked by several attributes: The United States is a sinister power, bent on global oppression. Routinely described as the Great Satan and the devil incarnate, the United States is perceived as a cruel, greedy, and oppressive power seeking global domination. This view is grounded in a reading of history that sees America-the leading force behind a liberal, democratic world order-as overwhelmingly responsible for the immoral and corrupt state of mankind. As Ahmadinejad has stated, the arrogant regime in the United States is the biggest obstacle against the cause of the prophets. The U.S.-led capitalist system is on the brink of collapse. Believing that capitalism is the cause of social ills facing the West, including poverty, drugs, and inequality, Iran's leaders see the ongoing global economic turmoil as proof that the capitalist system is approaching its demise. Capitalism has produced nothing but frustration, disappointment and a dark future for humanity, according to Ahmadinejad, and will soon join history in the future. U.S. alliances in the Middle East are crumbling. Iran's leaders rejoiced at the downfall of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak - seeing it as vindication of its long-held belief that the days of U.S.-backed dictators are numbered. Similarly, Iran sees Israel - America's strongest regional ally - as fundamentally illegitimate and destined to collapse. With Israel seemingly on the defensive, Tehran believes it is just a matter of time before it will succeed in forcing the Zionist leaders to return to their homes, and to restore Palestine to its original owners. Iran's Islamic revolution is heralding a new global order. Central to this worldview is the notion that the Iranian revolution provides universal inspiration for a new international system. Ahmadinejad has called for setting up a new international economic order based on human and moral values and obligations. While vague in describing its form, Iran's leaders have made clear this new world order would limit American and Western influences, replacing it with one in which Iran and its followers would be predominant. Looking at current events, it is easy to understand why Iran's leaders might exude so much confidence. The West continues to be mired in high levels of debt and unemployment, Israel is struggling in the face of diplomatic isolation, and the Arab Spring rolls on. Recent headlines from Iran's PressTV capture the sentiment: US, Israel Cannot Stop MENA Uprisings, US Moving Towards Total Collapse, and Capitalism on Death Bed. Superficially, such events may reinforce the Iranian narrative. But viewed in context, Tehran's perceptions are utterly devoid from reality. True, the global economy continues to sputter, but does anyone else really believe that capitalism and democracy are on their way out? Israel may be outvoted at the U.N., but the region's strongest military power is not about to disappear. And the Arab Spring lives on in Syria - a close Iranian ally - while the Iranian revolution has played virtually no role in any of the recent Middle East uprisings. So does it really matter that Iran's leaders seem to truly believe in this stuff? Absolutely. The warped worldview reflected in Ahmadinejad's remarks is what drives Iran's confrontational posture toward the West - and serves as the inspiration for its dangerous nuclear ambitions. Given the Islamic Republic's far-reaching ambitions, a nuclear weapons capability could be particularly devastating. Consequently, Iran must remain at the top of the national security agenda. The U.S. must be more pro-active in countering Iran's propaganda machine and breathing new
[osint] Why China Is a Financial Midget
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904106704576582760749856144.ht ml?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=wus7micabet=1107771363619s=2577e=001Y1CAYm sj_mLqP-Sr-dZtC2aQB0kvA2w6hVeYfYhRaezvjSHBjzoA-WP-nAFEKKUsh8GKDUcODpX91DwtYU 10wIbiqmI-7rwcB7mmAMyRQyc-49lNb8R2oOq_5ZN6suSEATV7XtifYqMud5kwTxzBY1yd5Ssyal zflncWiZoinY3we3ROCT5SO9JFgGUPz3k8JL-UL-8ShL4BpcdJ4gzMWdWxZ9UIpymPRZQjSJoath o= SEPTEMBER 21, 2011 Why China Is a Financial Midget Beijing's economic model will prevent the yuan from replacing the dollar as the world's reserve currency. By JONATHAN ANDERSON The title says it all: Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance. Arvind Subramanian's new book is a good example of a more aggressive line of argument regarding China-that it's a matter of whether, not when, China will take over economic leadership of the world. But China's road to real financial influence promises to be far longer and rockier than the GDP numbers would suggest. The argument for dominance has two prongs. The first is that China's economy will very soon be larger than either the U.S. or the EU. And second, as this happens the yuan will also naturally replace the dollar as the global reserve currency, with profound consequences for international markets. On the first issue, there is little debate. China already has a $7 trillion economy, roughly half the size of the U.S. or the EU. If it can continue to grow even at 6% to 7% a year, not even at 10% or 11% as it did through much of the 2000s, then in five years the Chinese economy could easily pass the $15 trillion mark, where the U.S. is today. By the end of this decade, China should already be larger than the U.S. and equal to Europe. The future of China's financial role is murkier. Within 10 years the yuan will probably play only a marginally more important global role than it does today. It won't replace the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency, and it may not even challenge the Japanese yen or the pound sterling. Why? It's one thing to hold the yuan for trade invoicing, but if you're going to hold it as a liquid safe haven portfolio investment choice, you need free and unfettered access to deep domestic fixed-income markets. This is what the dollar and euro offer, and essentially so do the yen and other G-10 major currencies. But not China, which maintains one of the most closed capital account regimes in the world. That is true in comparison to developed markets and to lower-income neighbors in Asia and other emerging regions. The bigger problem is that China can't open its capital regime, at least not fast enough to matter. For more than two decades, China's philosophy of monetary management and financial development has been based on a closed-economy system: maintaining low and stable interest rates without having to worry about external arbitrage, breezily adopting economic stimulus when needed without concern about the banking system's asset quality, propping up banks with historically high nonperforming loan ratios and fixed-cost pricing, and keeping iron-clad control over the exchange rate. All of these only work when foreign portfolio funds cannot influence asset prices, and when locals have nowhere else to go. While China's GDP may be 10 times larger than it was in 1995, its external capital controls are still similar to what they were back then. China has opened a few windows at the margin, but it has never seriously opened the doors. If anything, the financial crises of 1997-98 and 2008-09 have taught the authorities to be as slow as possible in making adjustments. Even if China were to remove external controls, this still leaves the lack of deep domestic markets. Put simply, there's nothing to invest in. You need a local bond market, and China doesn't have one. Relative to its size, China has a much less mature fixed-income market than most of its major emerging-market peers. As with capital controls, this is part of the financial model. China's unique prevalence of undisciplined state-owned borrowers and reliance on quantitative macro-credit measures makes it imperative to keep financial flows concentrated in the banking system. This explains why the bond market failed to outgrow GDP for much of the 2000s. And it explains why, after the unbridled explosion of corporate paper in the past two years, the authorities are now back-pedaling to bring down exposures, precisely to preserve bank asset quality and leverage ratios. One common rejoinder is that China has no option but to open up its capital markets and make reforms to pave the way for yuan convertibility, since the alternative is to continue to accumulate hundreds of billions of dollars per year in questionable foreign assets-a trend that is increasingly unpalatable to China's leadership. This argument makes no economic sense. As long as China's domestic saving rate is above its domestic investment rate-as long as it is running external current
[osint] Will Rising China Threat Spoil the Trans-Atlantic Relationship?
9/23/2011 05:13 PM Will China's Rise Spoil the Trans-Atlantic Relationship? By Daniel M. Kliman and Andrew Small A new survey by the German Marshall Fund finds that China's rise is leading Americans to turn their attention away from Europe and to view China as more of a threat than Europeans do. But how much do these factors threaten the trans-Atlantic relationship, and how well can it adapt to changing circumstances? Strategic circumstances and brute economic realities are starting to push Europeans and Americans into different places when they think about China's and Asia's rise. New polling released this month suggests not only a growing divergence in threat perceptions, but also a trend in US public opinion that places Asia, rather than Europe, at the center of Americans' interests. Without a conscious effort to construct a partnership that is attuned to these new realities, Asia's ascendance threatens to lead to a long-term drift in trans-Atlantic relations. The German Marshall Fund's http://www.gmfus.org/ Transatlantic Trends survey http://trends.gmfus.org/ makes it clear that Europe faces a future in which, for the first time, it can no longer count on enjoying a central place in the minds of Americans. Whereas 52 percent of the Europeans surveyed identify the United States as being of the utmost importance to their national interests, only 38 percent of Americans felt the same way about Europe. Instead, the survey shows a slight majority (51 percent) of Americans viewing the countries of Asia as more important. Likewise, this percentage only grows as the sample group grows younger, with three out of every four young Americans now looking across the Pacific rather than the Atlantic. Differing Views on China There is also a division opening up in public perceptions of China. Surveys have long shown that Americans see China as more of a military threat than Europeans do, but this increasingly applies in the economic sphere, as well. The Transatlantic Trends survey now shows a plurality of Europeans viewing China as an economic opportunity rather than threat. In the United States, on the other hand, 63 percent see China as an economic threat, up from 49 percent just a year ago. What's more, some of the most favorable shifts in opinion were seen in European countries in which the media gave significant coverage to Chinese investments and bond purchases. These developments are partly a matter of public opinion catching up with reality. As a Pacific power, the United States is strategically present in Asia in a way that Europe is not, and its role in dealing with shifts in the regional balance of economic and military power is qualitatively different. However, what should worry the trans-Atlantic partners are emerging splits over China. Since 2004, when efforts to lift the EU arms embargo on China triggered a fierce trans-Atlantic dispute, Europe and the United States have more often than not spoken with one voice, whether in responding to China's newfound assertiveness or in bringing joint cases against China before the World Trade Organization (WTO). As the crisis in the euro zone intensifies, that unity is now showing signs of weakening. China is making a serious effort to increase its investments in Europe during an exceptionally fragile time for the European Union and the entire European project. This is beginning to translate into political credit and public goodwill toward China. Indeed, the Transatlantic Trends survey shows the first serious uptick in Beijing's numbers in Europe for many years. Natural Partners in Asia , Too It will be to the detriment of both sides if trans-Atlantic outlooks drift further apart. Economically, Europe's role in the Asia-Pacific region is as big as the United States'. It leads the way in negotiating free-trade agreements, and there are crucial shared interests on issues ranging from the protection of intellectual property to managing a new wave of inbound investments by state-owned enterprises. In the military realm, the US security role in Asia is a public good that also benefits Europeans, who have a vital interest in regional stability. Europe may not play a meaningful military role in the Asia-Pacific region, but it is still important to achieve congruence in strategic thinking about the world's most dynamic region. This is not just a matter of reinforcing Europe's aversion to lifting the arms embargo on China or restraining the export of dual-use technologies. Europe's willingness to take on greater burdens in its own neighborhood, as it did in Libya, would do much to facilitate the strengthening of American commitments in Asia that will be required in the coming years. On values-based issues -- from human rights to democracy promotion -- Europe remains America's natural partner in Asia and beyond. Compared to the Soviet threat, the Balkan wars of the 1990s or post-9/11 Afghanistan, Asia provides seemingly fewer natural
[osint] FBI Submits to Islamic Terrorists and Apologizes for Telling Truth about Islam
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/09/23/327015/fbi-library-and-online-t raining-resources-stocked-with-islamophobic-material/ http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/09/23/327015/fbi-library-and-online- training-resources-stocked-with-islamophobic-material/ FBI Library And Online Training Resources Stocked With Islamophobic Material By http://thinkprogress.org/author/eclifton/ Eli Clifton on Sep 23, 2011 at 12:55 pm http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/pipesspencer.jpg http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/pipesspencer-300x234.jpg Spencer Ackerman's http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/fbi-islam-101-guide/ reports on http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/fbi-islam-qaida-irrelevant/3/ Islamophobic training http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/fbi-muslims-radical/all/1 sessions at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have sent the Bureau into damage control mode. On Thursday, the FBI held a conference call with Muslim civil rights groups to apologize for the offensive training materials, which Ackerman has published over the past week. The FBI has promised a comprehensive review of all training and reference materials, but Ackerman, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/fbi-islam-domination/all/1 in an article published today, reveals that the work of well-known Islamophobes permeates the FBI's training culture and the internal reference resources available to FBI agents. Ackerman reports that the mandatory online orientation material for the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs), included the following description of Sunni Muslims: Sunni Muslims have been prolific in spawning numerous and varied fundamentalist extremist terrorist organizations. Sunni core doctrine and end state have remained the same and they continue to strive for Sunni Islamic domination of the world to prove a key Quranic assertion that no system of government or religion on earth can match the Quran's purity and effectiveness for paving the road to God. An examination of the FBI's library in Quantico, which is not open to the public, revealed that the Bureau stocks a wide range of resources on Islam but includes a number of books by well known anti-Islam authors http://thinkprogress.org/daniel-pipes-founder-middle-east-forum/ Daniel Pipes and http://thinkprogress.org/robert-spencer-co-founder-stop-islamization-of-ame rica-director-jihad-watch/ Robert Spencer. Pipes and Spencer are featured prominently in the Center for American Progress' new report, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/08/islamophobia.html Fear, Inc., which outlines the small but influential group of individuals and institutions who help promote anti-Muslim hatred in the U.S. Spencer, who claims that Islam is not a religion of peace and has suggested that President Obama may be a Muslim, gained notoriety after it was revealed that Norwegian terrorist Anders Brevik's manifesto included http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/07/25/278677/islamophobic-right-wing -blogger-breivi/ 162 references to Spencer and his blog Jihad Watch. Pipes famously observed that all immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most. He also plays a key role in the Islamophobia echo chamber by repeating the falsehood that Obama is a former Muslim who practiced Islam. The combination of Islamophobic presentation and the FBI's apparent endorsement of noted anti-Muslim experts like Spencer and Pipes raises serious questions about the FBI's counterterrorism training and the Bureau's understanding of Muslim Americans. Earlier this month, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016171004_copworkshop11m.h tml the Seattle Times reported on a disastrous presentation by an FBI agent at a community outreach workshop. The failed presentation offers insights into how federal law enforcement officers' training has seriously hampered their ability to engage with Muslim communities. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for
[osint] There Is No Travesty of Justice in Georgia. Execute Troy Davis
The only travesty is that he was not executed 20 years ago. B http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/09/21/there-is-no-travesty-of-justice-in- georgia-executive-troy-davis/ There Is No Travesty of Justice in Georgia. Execute Troy Davis http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/09/21/there-is-no-travesty-of-justice-in -georgia-executive-troy-davis/ Posted by Erick Erickson http://www.redstate.com/erick/ (Profile http://www.redstate.com/users/erick/ ) Wednesday, September 21st at 10:40PM EDT 40 Comments Tonight the United States Supreme Court declined to stay Troy Davis's execution. He will, by the time many of you are reading this, be dead. There were no expressions of dissent or objection from any of the 9 members of the Supreme Court. I like Guy Benson a lot, but his column on Troy Davis got my blood pressure up. http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/09/21/the_death_penalty_and_a_t ravesty_of_justice_in_georgia I'm hearing a lot from people opposed to Troy Davis's execution that there is no physical evidence in the case - and a whole lot of other hoo-haa. First of all, let's set out that the case has been going on for twenty years. Second, let's point out that two witnesses at Davis's trial testified under oath that Troy Davis admitted to the shooting. Yes, those witnesses have now, twenty years and much badgering by anti-death penalty advocates later, recanted. A federal judge spent two days reviewing the evidence and the testimony last year and issued a 172 page order explaining why the witnesses recanting was smoke and mirrors. In fact, one of the chief nuggets of the case is that there was no physical evidence. Except that is crap. There is the matter of Troy Davis's bloody clothes that you've probably never heard of. There was a .38 caliber gun. Both Troy Davis and the man Davis's team claims in the real murderer, Sylvester Coles, had a .38 caliber gun. Davis's gun had been used in another shooting and the gun casing were linked between both shootings. Everyone likes to gloss over that. They point out that the man who claimed Davis fired on him has now recanted - yet again 20 years later. But here are some additional facts - if we're going to deal with things that weren't in contention twenty years ago. The federal courts and state courts in Georgia have all denied Davis's appeal. Prior to 2008, Georgia's Supreme Court was decidedly liberal and even they passed. For the first time in 50 years the United States Supreme Court ordered a federal court to conduct an entire rehearing of all the evidence. The court did and found all the new stuff was, again, smoke and mirrors, including the retracted confessions. And while building the case to claim that Sylvester Coles was the real murderer, the defense would not call Coles in for examination. But then there is Officer MacPhail himself and what the defense all too conveniently forgets to bring up. Officer MacPhail testified at Troy Davis's murder trial. See, MacPhail, an Army Ranger and police officer was working a second job that night as a security guard. He chased Davis and Sylvester Coles, who were assaulting a homeless man over a beer. MacPhail reported in that he had run passed Sylvester Coles. MacPhail was shot from the front in the chest and face - not from behind where Coles was, but from the front where MacPhail himself located Troy Davis. And then, if we really want to get into the weeds and talk about facts, consider this fact. Troy Davis immediately became the suspect and fled. Police roped off his house, obtained entry, and searched the home. In the laundry they found Troy Davis's shorts from that night with evidence on the clothing directly tying him to Officer MacPhail's murder - Officer MacPhail's blood. (editorial note: it should be noted that Troy Davis's shorts were not DNA tested. There were multiple people's blood on his shorts) According to Darrell Collins, who is now recanting everything or claiming not to remember anything, Davis admitted to Collins that Davis had shot MacPhail in the chest and then went back to shoot MacPhail in the head at close range because MacPhail had seen his face - hence MacPhail's blood on Davis's shorts. Oh, and at the time Collins gave his statement way back in 1989 it was not public knowledge that Officer MacPhail had been shot in the chest and then at close range in the face. (remember as well that there were 34 witnesses, not the 9 as claimed. The defense claims seven witnesses changed their testimony. That's actually not true. Only two materially changed their testimony and Davis's attorneys refused to present those two in federal court in 2010 to be examined in the evidentiary hearing even though they sat outside the courtroom door. Among the eyewitnesses were three airmen in the Air Force in a bus who had prime viewing for the murder and all identified Troy Davis as the wearer of the white Batman t-shirt, which is what the murderer wore) Of
[osint] FW: Roissy, France 30 Muslims Block El Al Counter, Shouting 'Death to Jews'
Monday, 19 September 2011 http://islamversuseurope.blogspot.com/2011/09/30-muslims-block-el-al-counte r-shouting.html 30 Muslims Block El Al Counter, Shouting 'Death to Jews' 15:23 | Posted by Cheradenine Zakalwe http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gcMQElHrrnc/TndRlKSr-bI/BAY/dTUBLcFG3Ao/s 1600/elal.png cid:6261E969-CDCE-4978-AAB5-4F8CBBC03331@cg.shawcable.net Yesterday afternoon, around 30 Muslims blocked an El Al counter at Roissy airport in France, harassing passengers and shouting 'Death to Jews' and 'Death to Israel'. They were said to be members of the 'islamist' and pro-Palestinian groups Forsane Alizza and Euro-Palestine. For about 20 minutes, the Muslims prevented passengers from boarding. According to an eyewitness, a horde of savages terrorised, threatened and intimidated passengers. Police summoned reinforcements to deal with the situation. Around a dozen people were arrested and charged with public order offences. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] US Warned about Muslim Turkey's Perfidy
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.viewpageId=347045 pageId=347045 Analysts warn U.S. about Turkey's instability Longtime ally and NATO member now in confrontation with Israel _ Posted: September 21, 2011 8:38 pm Eastern By Michael Carl C 2011 WND Analysts are warning the U.S., and its ally Israel, about the instability they see in Turkey, where Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called Israel the biggest impediment to Middle East peace, has demanded Israel apologize for defending itself, and has suggested his nation's military might enable blockade runners to move against Israel's weapons blockade of the Gaza Strip. Heritage Foundation foreign policy analyst Ariel Cohen believes that Turkey is not only setting itself up for confrontation with Israel, but with the U. S. as well. This is a headlong collision because the Obama administration does not want recognition of the Palestinian state at the U.N., Cohen said. American Enterprise Institute's Middle East analyst Michael Rubin says Turkey's actions and closer alignment with the Islamic world in recent days demonstrate that Turkey is not a good fit for the freedom-focused North Atlantic Treaty Organization, of which it is a member. (Story continues below) http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/18784-134253-39616-0?mpt=%5bCACHEBUSTER% 5dmpvc= http://img-cdn.mediaplex.com/0/18784/134253/921d08.jpg While Turkey was an important Cold War ally, increasingly Turkey has become a liability to the United States and NATO, Rubin said. The issue is not Israel and the current conflict: Rather, the more Erdogan reaches out to China and Iran, and the more he controls the military, the greater the risk to the United States and NATO of the leakage of our most important defense technologies and secrets to our enemies, Rubin explained. WND has reported that human rights activists and other analysts have said http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.viewpageId=119164 Turkey's increasingly close ties to radical Islamic states also make the Asia Minor country unfit for membership in the European Union. International Christian Concern's Jonathan Racho said Turkey's radical Islamic activism will open Europe to a freer flow of potential terrorists. There's been an increasing Islamization of Europe through immigration of Muslims from Muslim nations. If Turkey joins, then the EU rules would allow the free movement of Turkey's Islamists throughout Europe, Racho said. This possibility is a clear reason for Europe to deny Turkey's admission into the EU. Another dynamic is the coming United Nations vote on Palestinian statehood. Cohen says that Turkey's aggression is perfectly timed to coincide with the UN vote. Turkey is not just supporting it on a vote basis, but they've pulled out all the stops to escalate this issue and make it the defining issue in the Muslim world, Cohen said. Under its leadership, Prime Minister Erdogan berated Arabs for not doing enough on this issue and this is a very worrisome and disconcerting development, Cohen added. Listen to an interview with Cohen: Regarding the vote on Palestinian statehood, in a Hudson Institute conference call, http://www.hudson.org/ former Israeli ambassador to the United States Dore Gold said the Palestinian bid for statehood is a direct violation of the Oslo accords. http://www.dore-gold.com/ The Palestinian move at the United Nations is a violation, I'll even go further, it's a material breach of the Oslo agreement. How everyone reacts will have to wait until the act, Gold said. We've (Israel) made it clear however that it's a fundamental violation and that Israel is free to act as it sees fit, Gold said. Gold emphasized that European countries who signed the Oslo accords should re-evaluate their support for Palestinian statehood. The Europeans are witnesses to the agreement. They put their names on it. So, are they going to vote for or against an agreement that they supported? Gold said. Rubin said that Turkey's actions are timed to coincide with the U.N. vote on Palestinian statehood and that there is a relationship between Turkey's actions and all of the events in the Middle East. However, he said Turkey's ambitions go beyond Israel and the U.N. vote. Turkey is deliberately aiming to destabilize the entire region, he charged. As for the U.N. vote on the Palestinians, this is simply the latest example of Turkey's efforts to undermine the Middle East Peace Process and is evidence of how Erdogan's behavior is sacrificing the security of the region for his short-term political interests, Rubin said. Cohen agrees and he said that evidence of Turkey's ambitions as a Middle East power are illustrated by overtures to other major Middle East players. Beyond that, Turkey is in a confrontation with Iran over Syria, and it is reaching out to Egypt, Cohen said. Cohen says that Turkey's overtures to
[osint] Palestinians way ahead of Obama on statehood strategy, say experts
Not hard to outsmart Zero. B Description: Description: Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/law-enforcement-in-national/gaza-demonstration-phot o Description: Description: Palestinian demonstrators showed support for U.N. recognition, but became over enthusiastic and started burning American and Israeli flags.Palestinian demonstrators showed support for U.N. recognition, but became over enthusiastic and started burning American and Israeli flags. Credits: IDF/ISA Palestinians way ahead of Obama on statehood strategy, say experts · By http://www.examiner.com/user-copmagazine Jim Kouri, Law Enforcement Examiner Palestinian Authority officials initiated a full-court press propaganda campaign months before they came to New York City this week to request the United Nation recognize the Palestinian people and their territories as an independent nation. Contrary to what is being said by President Barack Obama's supporters -- who claimed on Wednesday that Obama dropped everything to appear at the U.N. in support of the Israel -- the President, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other members of Obama's administration knew about the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' plans to appear before the United Nations General Assembly to plead his case for statehood well before September. The propaganda campaign was common knowledge within the White House, but Obama and his minions chose to ignore it and Abbas' U.N. plan. The campaign was intended to show internal Palestinian support for the move to statehood, strengthen international support and calm Jewish apprehensions by downplaying the issue of the right of return issue that continues to be a sticking point for both sides. The U.S. intelligence community and police counterterrorism units were aware of the Palestinians' plans to bypass peace talks and U.S. intervention by going directly to the U.N. It's no secret in the Middle East that President Obama is a weak but calculating politician with no real experience in matters of war, diplomacy and geopolitics, said former intelligence officer and police detective Sid Franes. Obama's U.N. performance was just that -- a performance created to strengthen his popularity with Jews in the U.S. before the 2012 election. It was just another campaign stop for Obama's re-election, plain and simple, said Det. Franes. The propaganda campaign was reinforced by broad and potentially violent popular activities, even though the Palestinians planned to moderate the events. The appeal played out on the background of the recent break-in to the Israeli embassy in Cairo and Turkey's inflammatory declarations regarding last year's Free Gaza Flotilla. On September 8, the Palestinian Authority launched their campaign calling it Palestine: State Number 194 to support its appeal to the UN, with the theme of statehood recognition. The campaign began with a communiqué to the UN Secretary General sent through the U.N. representative in Ramallah. According to the Israeli counterterrorism group, The Meir Amit, on September 9 and 10 demonstrations (of between dozens and several hundred demonstrators) were held at the usual friction points in Judea and Samaria. Further demonstrations and popular protests continued throughout the Palestinian Authority territories and among Palestinian communities abroad, although passion ran high and Palestinian protesters began to burn Israeli and American flags. The campaign is supposed to last for three weeks. It began on September 8 (with a low profile) and is expected to peak on September 21 and 23, with the opening session of the General Assembly and a speech by Mahmoud Abbas, respectively, and continue until the end of September. During those three weeks propaganda events will be held in the Palestinian Authority, the Arab world -- where the Israeli embassy in Jordan may be a focus of demonstrations -- and abroad especially in the United States and Britain. While the campaign went as planned in the West Bank, it met with difficulties in the Gaza Strip because of Hamas' ideological reservations concerning the Palestinian Authority appeal to the UN, according to The Meir Amit. A former United States police officer now living and working in Israel -- under condition of anonymity -- told the Law Enforcement Examiner that the campaign's objectives are to demonstrate internal Palestinian and international support for the UN move and at the same time to remove the international community's apprehensions regarding its inherent dangers by providing a response to the claims against the U.N. move raised by Israel. The campaign issued a call for activity by non-Muslims. Demonstrations are being organized throughout the United States, the most important of which will be held in New York City. Other cities will include Omaha, organized by Katie Huerter from a network called Nebraskans for Peace. San Francisco pro-Palestinian campaign is organized by Code Pink -- whose leader Jodie
[osint] Washington Post Fails to Note Muslim Brotherhood Terror Links of Virginia Mosque
Media's sappy love affair with Muslims mirrors the same as with Zero. B http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10427/pub_detail.asp September 22, 2011 Washington Post Fails to Note Brotherhood Links of Virginia Mosque http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/authors/id.126/author_detail.asp The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report Print This javascript:%20printVersion() E-mail This javascript:%20emailVersion() javascript:void(0); http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/images/share.png ShareThis javascript:void(0); Comments (0) http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/comments.asp?id=10427 http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20110630_GMBDRMedium.gif http://globalmbreport.org/?p=5066 Washington Post Fails to Identify U.S. Muslim Brotherhood Ties of Dar Al-Hijrah http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20100812_DaralHijrah.jpg The Washington Post has reported on the Washington D.C. Dar Al-Hijrah mosque and its imam Johari Abdul Malik. The http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/imam-serves-as-public-face-of-an-embatt led-mosque/2011/08/31/gIQA9vB2cK_story.html article describes the mosque as follows: The mosque's name means land of migration, and every Friday more than 3,000 worshipers from more than 35 countries pack into Dar Al-Hijrah's prayer hall. Doctors from Pakistan kneel next to hotel workers from Sudan. Refugees from Somalia pray alongside naturalized citizens from Egypt. It was founded by a group of Arab college students in the 1980s. Through local fundraising drives and assistance from a few foreign donors such as the Saudi Embassy, the congregation bought 3.4 acres in Falls Church and began constructing a $5 million prayer hall. Today, its immense stone facade - chiseled with a verse from the Koran and adorned with a minaret and domes - is just off Leesburg Pike, hidden by evergreens. Its members are, for the most part, intensely committed to their faith and deeply conservative. Monday through Thursday, when many Muslims pray at home or near work, Dar Al-Hijrah regularly draws 200 to 400 worshipers, with many rising before dawn to get to prayer. http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20101221_JoharAbdulMalik.jpg Johar Abdul Malik, imam of the mosque. The Post article, however, fails to identify the close ties between the mosque and the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. According to the Dar Al-Hijra constitution, http://www.daralhijrah.net/ns/?page_id=172 four of the nine mosque board members must include the current Secretary General of Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the current President of Muslim Arab Youth Association (MAYA), the current General Manager of North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) , and the current President of Muslim American Society (MAS). (Both MAYA and NAIT are components of ISNA.) All are part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. In 2004, the Washington Post did http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A14497-2004Sep11?language=printer report on the ties between Dar Al-Hijra and the MAS, a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood group close to the Egyptian organization. Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical imam discussed in the current Post article had been Imam of Dar Al-Hijrah to prior to 911 and in July 2005 Shaker Elsayed, the former secretary-general of the MAS was appointed as the Dar Al Hijrah imam. The former imam left to become the executive director of the Fiqh Council of North America, affiliated with ISNA. In addition, an earlier http://globalmbreport.com/?p=2339 post discussed reports that Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center was scheduled to host a 2010 fund-raising dinner for the ongoing legal fees of Sabri Benkahla, sentenced in 2007 to 10 years in prison for lying to authorities about training with militants in Pakistan. One of the three featured speakers was Jamal Badawi, a leader in many of the most important organizations of the global Muslim Brotherhood including the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR Canada), the Fiqh Council of North America, the Muslim American Society (MAS), and the European Council for Fatwa and Research. http://www.currenttrends.org/docLib/20090406_Merley2009Layout5.pdf Documents released during the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial indicate that he was (and probably still is), a member of the leadership structure of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. The other two scheduled speakers at the dinner were Rodwaan Saleh, the ISNA Affiliates Coordinator, and John Sheldon, Mr Benkahla's attorney. Individuals convicted/indicted in terrorism-related cases that have been known to have attended Dar Al-Hijrah include: . Abdurrahman Alamoudi, (convicted in plot assassinate Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia) . Mousa Abu Marzook (indicted Hamas political leader) . Ismail Elbarasse (convicted of obstruction of justice in Hamas financing case) . Abdelhaleem Ashqar (convicted of
[osint] The Questions Never Asked About Palestine
September 22, 2011 The Questions Never Asked About Palestine By http://www.americanthinker.com/steve_feldman/ Steve Feldman As the Palestinian-Arabs and their friends make their latest push for Palestinian statehood at the United Nations this week, once again the wrong questions are being asked, while the pertinent questions every reporter, activist, and foreign minister should be asking never arise. Why do Palestinians need a state of their own? Who are these stateless people? What is their history? Where have they been for all of these years? In the spirit of you don't know what you don't know, here are some Hansel-and-Gretel-like bread crumbs to guide journalists and others to the questions they might ask: Where does the name Palestine come from and who have been the people who've lived there? Of course, it was coined by the conquering Romans to add insult to injury to a Jewish nation they sought to obliterate. The Romans conquered the land, but there was always a remnant of Jewish people living there. While throughout the ages the land was under control of various powers, none called themselves Palestinian, and there was never a nation with that name. It was that Jewish remnant and those Jews who joined them over time who became the Palestinians. In modern times, the Ottoman Turks controlled this territory and, following World War I, the British (under the auspices of the League of Nations). In this period, there were many Palestinian institutions, though all of them were Jewish in character and membership. The most famous of these was, perhaps, the Palestine Post, which lives on today as the Jerusalem Post. There were Palestine orchestras and chess teams and the like. But the names of the players were Jewish, not Arab. As Jewish nationalism in the region gained strength, the Arabs and Muslims committed massacre after massacre of Jews throughout Palestine. Meanwhile, in 1922, the British took 78% of territory that was promised for a Jewish homeland by the World War I victors and the League of Nations and gave it to the Arabs. The outcome was the heretofore nonexistent Arab nation of Transjordan. Transjordan later became simply Jordan. This should be the end of the story, as the land of Palestine was divided (though quite unfairly) and an Arab state was created out of the Jewish homeland. Two states for two peoples. Being handed 78% of a territory would satisfy most people -- if their true interest were a state of their own. Instead, over the past seven decades, what the world refuses to see is the desire by the Arabs to obliterate Jewish nationalism, and later the Jewish nation that was its culmination. Violence and terrorism by the Arabs against Jews continued, and as the Arabs stepped up their pressure on the British and the League of Nations, in an attempt to appease the Arabs, the remaining 22% of the land left for the Jews was divided further. The Arabs again got the bigger portion. The Jews accepted the offer and, when the mandate expired, declared independence as the nation of Israel. The Arabs declared war. Though they were unable to defeat the Israelis, the Arabs did gain more territory. The Jordanians expanded into what they renamed the West Bank so as to erase the Jewish connection to Judea and Samaria (as those areas were called for millennia), while Egypt grabbed the Gaza Strip. The Arabs who lived in those areas never cried out for independence or claimed to be oppressed, nor threatened to go to the United Nations. Why? Because they were part of, rather than distinct from, the Arab Nation. Instead, there were incessant terror attacks. In 1964, the Arabs formed the Palestine Liberation Organization -- three years before Israel would gain control over the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria (aka the West Bank). So: what were the Arabs bent on liberating, and whom were they liberating it from? Did they demand a state from Egypt and Jordan? This is the same PLO that today controls the Palestinian Authority -- and has never renounced its appetite for all of what was once dubbed Palestine. It was only after Israel's miraculous victory in 1967 that the West Bank and Gaza Strip suddenly had relevance to their Arab inhabitants, and it was then that the Arab propaganda machine revved up. It eventually inverted much of the world's perception of the Middle East: transforming tiny Israel from its natural role of David against the massive Arab population and lands, to one of Goliath against the stateless, oppressed, and occupied Palestinians. It made the notion of changing straw into gold seem like child's play. And it worked. That the Palestinian-Arabs have spilled much innocent blood to get their cause out there -- murdered Olympics athletes, airline passengers, bus riders, diners -- seems to have faded from memory. But it was these headline-grabbing crimes that got them to the head of the line. The lesson: crime pays. Terror works. So, journalists,
[osint] Obama: Incompetent or Malevolent?
Both. B Obama: Incompetent or Malevolent? Posted By David Solway On September 20, 2011 The phrase politics as usual has gained a certain currency in our time. Regrettably, it is no longer relevant. What we are presently witnessing cannot be described as politics as usual. Consider the concatenation of events and factors that now confront us: the upsurge of terrorism and the growing strength of Islamic radicalism, a United Nations that has violated its Charter and is now home to totalitarian regimes and rogue nations, the international ostracism of Israel and an impending war in the Middle East, the American betrayal of its allies and a foreign policy that supports the Muslim Brotherhood and faux Arab revolutions, the corrupting influence of the left in the mainstream media and the universities, the potential economic implosion of Europe and possibly of the United States as well, and perhaps most distressingly at so critical a historical juncture, the election of Barack Obama, a man with neither business, military nor executive experience, to the most powerful office in the world. What we are observing is, in fact, the politics of the unusual, a perfect storm of forces and influences that threaten the democratic polity of the West and augur a coming epoch of peril and convulsion. And the one bulwark that might have resisted the towering wave of oncoming misfortune appears to be crumbling before our eyes. I am referring, of course, to the United States of America. What happened to New Orleans when Katrina struck is only a microcosm of the devastation that is now brewing. People rushed to blame President Bush for the disaster that devastated the city, but they were dementedly wrong or simply seeking to extract political profit from a natural catastrophe exacerbated by civic ineptitude. There can be no doubt, however, that President Obama is at the center of the approaching tsunami. I have long argued that the most dangerous man in the world is not Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Kim Jong-il or Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, but Barack Hussein Obama. This, I believe, is no exaggeration. In a troubling article http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/obama_and_our_911_trauma.html for American Thinker, Stella Paul contends that in electing Obama to the presidency, Americans tried to create a god to defend our freedom, because it was easier than the hard work needed to defend it ourselves. The result proves that outsourcing courage or delegating integrity, especially to an unknown quantity, always backfires. To cite the title of the famous 1949 book http://www.amazon.com/God-That-Failed-Arthur-Koestler/dp/0231123957/ref=sr_ 1_1_title_0_main?s=booksie=UTF8qid=1316003236sr=1-1 charting the defection of former communists, Obama, like communism itself, ineluctably became the god that failed. Paul goes so far as to claim that the destruction that Obama wrought may ultimately dwarf the wreckage of 9/11. Judging by the poll data, a majority of Americans-a considerable number prone to buyer's remorse-have come round to sharing this view of Obama's dreadful stewardship of the nation and the destabilizing effect he has had on world affairs. His conduct in office has sapped the economic strength of the U.S. and impaired the rule of law (e.g., his bypassing congress in the Libyan adventure), sowed fear and confusion among our allies, prepared the scene for the rise of inimical movements and states, and materially weakened the democratic West. But the jury is still out on whether he is only a bungling amateur or is motivated by a spirit of ingrained hostility toward his own country. The debate is gaining momentum as both the foreign and domestic situations plummet from bad to worse. Is Obama merely incompetent, a man completely out of his depth who has no understanding of real-world economics or realpolitik, who cannot deliver a coherent speech without the aid of a teleprompter, who is compelled to rely on the advice of sharpers and operators, and who has absolutely no prior, genuine accomplishments to his credit outside of a capacity for political maneuvering, polished mendacity and, as David Remnick gushed in The Bridge http://www.amazon.com/Bridge-Life-Barack-Obama-Vintage/dp/037570230X/ref=sr _1_1_title_0_main?s=booksie=UTF8qid=1315919434sr=1-1 , the ability to wear perfectly creased trousers? A community organizer as president? A feckless nonentity as Commander-in-Chief? Or is Obama by no means incompetent but, on the contrary, a brilliant neo-Marxist tactician, a man with a hard-left Alinskyite agenda for the subversion of the United States as a liberal, free-market democracy and its transformation into a socialist oligarchy? A man who deeply resents the primacy and exceptionalism of the country he governs and wishes for nothing more-or less-than to see its status in the world diminish in payback for its perceived transgressions as a pre-eminent power? Are his methods the fruit of deep-dyed education and
[osint] Palestinians: We Have Never Compromised...We Will Never Compromise
Palestinians: We Will Never Compromise. by sheikyermami on September 22, 2011 http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2011/09/obama-peace-requires-compromise-ab bas.html Obama: Peace requires compromise. Abbas: We'll never compromise. http://sheikyermami.com/wp-content/uploads/obama-abbas.jpg http://sheikyermami.com/wp-content/uploads/obama-abbas.jpg [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Five Basic Arguments Against A Palestinian State
Five Basic Arguments Against A Palestinian State Prof. Paul Eidelberg Contrary to the Governments of the United States and Israel, various experts in both countries reject the “two-state” solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I shall mention their views while developing five decisive arguments against a Palestinian state: Economic, Demographic, Political, Strategic, and Democratic. 1. Economic Arguments a. A RAND study indicates that a Palestinian state would not be economically viable. It would require $33 billion for the first ten years of its existence—and this study was made before the economic crisis now confronting the United States and entire world. b. Besides, to confine more than two million Arabs to the 2,323 square miles of the so-called West Bank, and to squeeze another million into the 141 square miles of Gaza, is to doom these Arabs to economic stagnation and discontent. The projected state would be a cauldron of envious hatred of Israel fueled by the leaders of one or another group of Arab clans or thugs parading under the banner of Allah. c. Moreover, to compensate perhaps 200,000 Jews expelled from the “West Bank”—or even half that number—would bankrupt Israel’s government, to say nothing of the resulting trauma and civil discord. 2. Demographic Arguments a. “Two-state” solution advocates warn that the Arabs between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean will soon outnumber the Jews, and that this necessitates a Palestinian state. The Sharon government, without public argumentation, used this demographic contention to justify its perfidious implementation of Labor’s policy of unilateral disengagement from Gaza in 2005. b. However, a groundbreaking study by the American-Israel Demographic Research Group (www.aidrg.com http://www.aidrg.com/ ) revealed in 2005 that Israel does not need to retreat from Judea and Samaria to secure Jewish demography. The study shows that the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics exaggerated the Arab population in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza by nearly 50%. Rather than 3.8 million Palestinians, it was no more than 2.4 million. Since those registered as Jews in Israel comprise almost 80% of Israel’s population, they make up a 59% majority with Gaza and Judea and Samaria, and a solid 67% majority with Judea and Samaria without Gaza! c. The American and Israeli researchers also found that Jewish fertility rates are steadily increasing while Arab fertility rates are steadily decreasing. Not only is there no demographic time bomb necessitating the surrender of Judea and Samaria to Palestinian terrorists, but Israel’s demographic position should encourage its government to develop a strategy for annexing Judea and Samaria. 3. Political Arguments a. According to Maj.-Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland, former head of Israel’s National Security Council, “the Palestinians do not truly desire the conventional two-state solution. The Arab world—especially Jordan and Egypt—does not truly support it either …” (Jerusalem Post, September 23, 2008). b. Dr. Yuval Steinitz, former Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman, said that the idea of a two-state solution should be dead. “A Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria,” he said, “would bring about Israel’s demise.… Such a Palestinian state would immediately become an outpost for Iran” (Jerusalem Post, September 14, 2008). c. Advocates of a Palestinian state live in a fantasy world or lack the intellectual courage to acknowledge the obvious: the Palestinians are committed to Israel’s annihilation. A generation of Arab children has been educated to hate Jews and emulate suicide bombers. Daniel Pipes said it would take at least two generations to undo such indoctrination. (This would require, among other things, basic changes in the Quran. Muslims would have to renounce the ethos of Jihad. No American or Israeli official has the guts to speak of this religious-cultural issue.) 4. Strategic Arguments a. On December 29, 2002, the freighter Karin-A set sail from Iran en route to the Suez Canal. It was boarded by Israeli commandos without opposition from the four crewmen, who were members of the Palestinian naval force. When the commandoes examined the ship’s cargo, they discovered launchers and rockets, mortars, anti-tank weapons, mines, 2 tons of explosives, assault rifles, machine guns, sniper rifles with telescope lenses, hand grenades, and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition—enough weaponry to tilt the balance of terror against Israel. The destination of the Karin-A was Gaza. Consistent with Dr. Steinitz’s warning, this Iranian arms shipment arms signifies that Iran views the Palestinians as a battle field in its 30-year war with Israel. (See Ronen Bergman, The Secret War with Iran, 2008, p. 270.) b. Even if it were agreed that a Palestinian state would have to be
[osint] Rules To Die From
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htmurph/articles/20110920.aspx Rules To Die From September 20, 2011: The U.S. Army leadership is upset at the recent award of the Medal of Honor (the highest American award for valor) to http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htmurph/articles/20110920.aspx U.S. Marinecid:part1.08010005.06040003@yahoo.com Corps sergeant Dakota Meyer. The army generals don't begrudge sergeant Meyer his medal, because he risked his life two years ago, for several hours, in order to save the lives of 24 Afghan and American troops trapped in an ambush. What disturbs the army leaders most is that Meyer was not alone while performing his heroic act. He had a companion, Army captain William Swenson, But Swenson has received no recognition from the army. That's because Swenson has been vocal about why he and sergeant (then corporal) Meyer had to perform those heroic acts (of driving a vehicle into the ambush, grabbing survivors and shooting their way out, and doing it five times.) Before the two off them drove off on their suicidal mission. Swenson tried to get a nearby army headquarters to provide artillery and air support for the trapped men, but the officers on duty refused. This was because a new general had taken over command of http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htmurph/articles/20110920.aspx U.S. troopscid:part1.08010005.06040003@yahoo.com in Afghanistan three months earlier, and issued strict rules on the use of American firepower when there was any risk to Afghan civilians. This was part of an effort to reduce civilian casualties. Troops in Afghanistan, and everyone back home, were told that these new rules would not prevent American troops getting fire support if their lives were in danger. But for Meyer and Swenson, the restrictions were killing American troops (in this case, four marines and a soldier.) The closest American headquarters had maps showing the ambush taking place near a village, so there was great reluctance to use bombs or artillery. Meyer and Swenson both subsequently left the military. But Swenson kept pressing the army to punish the officers at the nearby headquarters who repeatedly refused to provide any fire support for the trapped troops. If Swenson, Meyer and two other marines had not driven in, at great risk to themselves, over twenty U.S. and American troops would have died. The two other marines were awarded the Navy Cross (the second highest award). Swenson is believed to be up for a medal, but the army won't say what, or when. The army has not punished anyone for refusing fire support, and apparently wishes the entire matter would fade away. In 2009, American and Afghan troops were not the only ones upset at the new rules. At the same time Swenson and Meyers were risking their lives because of the new policy; other American troops were increasingly encountering angry Afghan civilians, who demand that the Americans act more decisively in pursuing and killing Taliban gunman, even if it put Afghan civilians at risk. This was an unexpected side effect of that change in the U.S. rules of engagement (ROE). The new ROE was a response to popular (or at least media) anger at civilians killed by American smart bombs. As a result of the new ROE, American commanders had to decide who they should respond too; Afghan civilians asking for relief from Taliban oppression, or Taliban influenced media condemning the U.S. for any Afghan civilians killed, or thought to be killed, by American firepower. What to do? Taliban propaganda, and the enthusiasm of the media for jumping on real, or imagined, civilian deaths caused by foreign troops, made people forget that far more civilians (about four times as many) had been killed by the Taliban. But because Afghans have been conditioned to expect more civilized behavior from the foreign troops, much less media attention is paid to the civilians killed by the Taliban and al Qaeda. Of course, Afghan civilians are aware of who is killing most of the civilians, and that's why the Taliban and al Qaeda are moving down in the opinion polls. But the media, hammering foreign troops every time they kill a civilian, or are simply (often falsely) accused of doing so, led to the ROE becoming far more strict than it ever was in Iraq. Thus one Taliban victory you don't hear much about is how they turned their use of human shields into a powerful, and very successful, propaganda weapon against NATO and U.S. troops, and an excellent way to avoid getting attacked. Under the new ROE, you had to, in effect, do a casualty analysis and consult a lawyer, before a deliberate missile or smart bomb attack is made on the Taliban. To their credit, the http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htmurph/articles/20110920.aspx U.S. Air Forcecid:part1.08010005.06040003@yahoo.com targeting specialists (who do most of this) can carry out the analysis quickly (often within minutes). Even the lawyers have gotten quick at the decision making game. The bad news is that
[osint] After Muslims threaten violence, Athens to become last European capital to build state-funded mosque
After Muslims threaten violence, Athens to become last European capital to build state-funded mosque Posted by Robert on September 12, 2011 1:42 PM What could go wrong? In recent years we have seen mosques used to [1] preach hatred http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025858.php ; to spread [2] exhortations to terrorist activity http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/008925.php ; to [3] house a bomb factory http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025649.php ; to [4] store weapons http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024408.php ; to [5] disseminate messages from bin Laden http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/001441.php ; to demand (in the U.S.) [6] that non-Muslims conform to Islamic dietary restrictions http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025401.php ; to [7] fire on American troops http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/012874.php ; to [8] fire upon Indian troops http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019307.php ; to [9] train jihadists http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017471.php ; and so we know they're places of peace, and anyone who suggests otherwise is a greasy Islamophobe. And the Germans must be so pleased that the Greeks are using their bailout money as jizya to build a state-funded mosque. Actually, they probably are. Greece to Build First Official Mega-Mosque in Athens, by Soeren Kern in [10] Hudson NY http://www.hudson-ny.org/2413/greece-mosque-athens , September 12: The Greek Parliament has approved a controversial plan to build a taxpayer-funded mega-mosque in Athens. The move comes amid thinly veiled threats of violence by thousands of Muslim residents of the city who have been pressuring the government to meet their demands for a mosque or face an uprising. The September 7 vote to speed up [11] construction of the first official mosque in Athens http://www.tanea.gr/ellada/article/?aid=4655157 –- the only capital in the European Union without a state-funded mosque -– was supported by 198 out of 300 deputies from the left, right and center. The mosque plan was included in an environment ministry bill regulating illegal construction. The plan calls for renovating an existing state building –- on a disused navy base- – in the industrial [12] district of Votanikos near the center of Athens http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_07/09/2011_405324 . The plan commits the Greek government (by way of the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs) to pay for the construction of a temporary mosque which will be built within the next six months. A larger 1,000 square meter (3,300 square feet) mosque with enough space for 500 worshippers at a time will be built in the same area by the end of 2012, at an estimated cost of around €16 million ($21 million). The announcement comes as massively indebted Greece battles a growing recession that has left nearly [13] one million Greeks out of work http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2011/06/08/greece-unemployment.html . Greece recently needed a [14] €110 billion ($146 billion) three-year bail-out package http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8656649.stm to rescue the embattled economy from bankruptcy _ Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/09/after-muslims-threaten-violence-athens-to-become-last-european-capital-to-build-state-funded-mosque.html URLs in this post: [1] http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025858.php [2] http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/008925.php [3] http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025649.php [4] http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024408.php [5] http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/001441.php [6] http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025401.php [7] http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/012874.php [8] http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019307.php [9] http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017471.php [10] http://www.hudson-ny.org/2413/greece-mosque-athens [11] http://www.tanea.gr/ellada/article/?aid=4655157 [12] http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_07/09/2011_405324 [13] http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2011/06/08/greece-unemployment.html [14] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8656649.stm Click here http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/09/after-muslims-threaten-violence-athens-to-become-last-european-capital-to-build-state-funded-mosque-print.html#Print to print. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available
[osint] Pakistan Urges Attacks on US Targets
Past time for the US Congress to declare war on Muslim Pakistan. B Pakistan ISI urged attacks on U.S. targets: officials ReutersBy Mark Hosenball | Reuters - 2 hrs 21 mins ago http://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-isi-urged-attacks-u-targets-officials-0022015 62.html WASHINGTON (Reuters)- U.S. officials said there was mounting evidence that Pakistan's powerful intelligence agency had encouraged a guerrilla network to attack U.S. targets, while a Senate committee voted to make aid to Islamabad conditional on fighting the militants. The decision by the Senate Appropriations Committee, which did not specify any amount of aid for Pakistan in fiscal 2012, reflects growing anger in Washington over militants operating out of Pakistan and battling U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Some U.S. intelligence reporting alleges that Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence directorate (ISI) specifically directed, or urged, the Haqqani network to carry out an attack last week on the U.S. Embassy and a NATO headquarters in Kabul, according to two U.S. officials and a source familiar with recent U.S.-Pakistan official contacts. The Haqqani network is one of three, and perhaps the most feared, allied insurgent factions fighting U.S.-led NATO and Afghan troops under the Taliban banner in Afghanistan. However, U.S. officials cautioned that the information that Pakistan's spy agency was encouraging the militants was uncorroborated. Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he had pressed Pakistan's army chief for Islamabad to break its links with the militant group. We covered ... the need for the Haqqani Network to disengage, specifically the need for the ISI to disconnect from Haqqani and from this proxy war that they're fighting, he said in a speech to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on Tuesday. The ISI has been doing this - working for - supporting proxies for an extended period of time. It is a strategy in the country and I think that strategic approach has to shift in the future. A Pakistani official sought to play down the differences. Pakistan values its relationship with the U.S. and is committed to eliminating terrorism in Afghanistan and from our soil, said the official. We will look at all evidence shared by the U.S. side and deal harshly with anyone and everyone responsible for terrorism. The Senate committee approved $1 billion in aid to support counter-insurgency operations by Pakistan's military, but voted to make this and any economic aid conditional on Islamabad cooperating with Washington against militant groups including the Haqqanis. Washington has allocated about $20 billion for Pakistan over the last decade. In fiscal 2010, Congress approved $1.7 billion for economic aid for Pakistan, and $2.7 billion in security aid, the Congressional Research Service says. U.S. aid could be crucial for Pakistan next year as it has decided not to seek a new International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan when its current program ends at the end of this month. Pakistan has been struggling since 2008 to keep its economy afloat with an $11 billion IMF loan. About $3 billion is left to be disbursed. SIMMERING The simmering tension between Washington and Islamabad came to a head last week with the attack on the Kabul embassy. It was a major blow as the United States hopes to nudge Afghanistan toward stability and gradually bring home U.S. forces after a decade of war. Since then, American officials, including the ambassador in Islamabad and Mullen have issued unusually blunt criticism of Pakistan's failure to curb the Haqqani group. But the U.S. administration appears to have few options. One option -- another cross-border raid, like the Navy SEAL mission that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in May -- may be tempting in some quarters. But the risks are high and the backlash from Pakistan would be fierce, almost certainly harming what counter-terrorism cooperation exists. The administration has thrown everything at this -- high-level meetings, tons of money, all of these overtures, and it hasn't gotten us anywhere, said Caroline Wadhams, a security analyst in Washington. This can't go on forever, she said, but the problem is that we have so little leverage. Pakistan denies that it still has ties to the Haqqanis but U.S. frustration seems to be mounting. Look at the language, it's clear the Americans are very frustrated with the Pakistanis. I think they are preparing the ground for more action against the Haqqanis, said Rahimullah Yusufzai, editor of the Peshawar edition of the News daily and an expert on Afghanistan. Vali Nasr, who until this spring was a senior official in the U.S. State Department's Afghanistan-Pakistan office, said efforts to prompt Pakistani action against militants with increased public pressure had no worked. They are not blinking, he said. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[osint] Libya - The End Without End
http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/libya/articles/20110920.aspx The End Without End September 20, 2011: Bani Walid, Sirte and several smaller places remain under the control of Kaddafi supporters. Actually, there is a corridor of land, south from the coastal town of Sirte that is pro-Kaddafi. The remaining Kaddafi troops are determined, and more skilled than their NTC opponents. Crushing this last bit of Kaddafi resistance may take weeks, or longer. Sirte is under attack by some 5,000 NTC fighters, and some of the suburbs have already been captured. Several thousand are besieging Bani Walid, and moving on smaller towns in the far south. While the NTC has more gunmen than the Kaddafi forces, and the benefit of http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/libya/articles/20110920.aspx NATOcid:part1.07070605.05010301@yahoo.com air power, the NTC men are not trained for effectively fighting in urban areas. The only military tactics these guys know they picked up from TV shows or movies. As any military trainer will tell you, that kind of tactical knowledge is worse than none at all. So the NTC forces will have to use NATO bombs, or captured artillery, to destroy or demoralize the enemy, or cut off food and water and wait them out. A week of this fighting has caused several hundred NTC casualties. Kaddafi is believed to be in Sirte or Bani Walid and is still in touch with his supporters in Libya via a Syrian satellite TV network that continues to broadcast Kaddafi audio or video messages. The French company that provides satellite broadcast services for the Syrian network refuses to cut the Syrians off. Meanwhile, the NTC has a bigger problem with the stalled economy and millions of Libyans without income, or electricity or, in some cases, no clean water. Some of these folks are beginning to hold demonstrations, especially in Tripoli. On the plus side, the oil fields were generally protected (less than 15 percent were damaged) by the oil company employees during six months of violence, and production is expected to increase to 500,000 barrels a day (worth $50 million a day) within a month or so. Kaddafi had ordered the oil fields and facilities destroyed, but the oil field employees delayed and sabotaged the placement of explosives, and the rebels managed to capture (quite by chance) the colonel in charge of destroying the oil fields. The men planting the explosives were thrown into confusion, and never received the order to set off the explosives. The NTC (National Transitional Council) has not been able to form a new government, with the various tribal, religious (Islamic radical) and political factions not able to agree on who gets what ministry. The original coalition fell apart last month in the wake of the murder of the NTC military leader. It's still unclear what was going on there. Ministries controlling defense, oil and the interior (national police) are most contentious. But all 36 ministries have some political value. Many NTC backers hoped the overthrow of the dictatorship would be an opportunity to curb the massive corruption that flourished during the Kaddafi era. But anti-corruption efforts are already running into resistance. The crooks are still out there, even within the NTC, and they are eager to steal. September 19, 2011: NTC fighters captured Sabha, which is 770 kilometers south of Tripoli and astride the main road going to the Niger border. September 16, 2011: The UN has transferred Libya's UN seat to the NTC, and lifted most of the sanctions on Libya. This made it easier for the NTC to get control of over $100 billion worth of frozen Libyan assets. September 15, 2011: Kaddafi's son Saadi, and three generals who once served Kaddafi, have requested asylum in Niger. The four, and their bodyguards, has driven 1,600 kilometers to reach Niger. Such convoys have been arriving since about a week ago, and continue to. The Niger government has been taking good care of the Kaddafi officials who have shown up, but have not granted asylum to anyone yet. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties,
[osint] FATWA: It Is Obligatory for Women to Remove Pubic Hair
http://sheikyermami.com/2011/09/22/fartwa-is-it-obligatory-to-remove-pubic-h air-for-women/ Fartwa: Is it obligatory to remove pubic hair for women? by sheikyermami on September 22, 2011 Yes, it is obligatory for women to remove pubic hair. and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best Moulana Muhammad Hashim FATWA DEPT. CHECKED AND APPROVED CORRECT: Mufti Ebrahim Desai Q: What is the area of shaving the pubic hair for a male and female? A: The area immediately under the navel is not to be shaven. The area of shaving for a person (male / female) is above and around the private parts. If possible, it is commendable to shave around the hind private parts as well. (Al-Kaamil, commentary of Muslim; Imaam Nawawi vol. 1 pg. 128). Where would we be without the wisdom of Ibrahim Desai? http://www.islam.tc/cgi-bin/askimam/ask.pl?q=6139act=view Related Links: Tolerance of Arabia: Pole dancer sparks outrage in Muslim community after taking erotic art to Saudi A British fitness instructor who visited the strict Muslim kingdom of Saudi Arabia to teach a Saudi woman the art of pole dancing has sparked disapproval among UK Muslims back home. http://m.dailymail.co.uk/mobile/femail/article.html?articleID=2040064 Haj Hookers Arrested in Mecca http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/CultureAndMedia/Middle-East-Saudis -arrest-five-Indonesian-Haj-sex-workers_312471687752.html . Mecca, 21 Sept. (AKI/Jakarta Post) - The Saudi Arabia Prosecution and Investigation Commission (PIC) has arrested 11 foreigners, including five Indonesians, on their alleged involvement in prostitution in Al-Khansa, Mecca, during the Hajj and Umrah periods. (TROP) http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/CultureAndMedia/Middle-East-Saudis -arrest-five-Indonesian-Haj-sex-workers_312471687752.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] State of Georgia FINALLY, Happily Executes Cop-Killer
News Alert: State of Georgia executes Troy Davis by lethal injection September 21, 2011 11:24:03 PM After a day of last-minute appeals, including one made to the U.S. Supreme Court, Troy Davis was executed at 11:08 p.m. Davis convinced hundreds of thousands of people, but not the justice system, of his innocence in the murder of off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail in 1989. Though Davis's attorneys say seven of nine key witnesses against him have disputed all or parts of their testimony, state and federal judges have repeatedly ruled against him. The execution had been set to begin at 7 p.m., but the high court’s decision was not issued until after 10 p.m. http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/YLCS8G/YHA5QC/KJ6V4I/XQA1OM/2LY25/KI/h http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/o/YLCS8G/YHA5QC/KJ6V4I/XQA1OM/9MZN/52 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Obama Defends, Republicans Slam Betrayal of Taiwan
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-administration-defends-republicans-sla m-taiwan-fighter-jet-decision Obama Administration Defends, Republicans Slam Taiwan Fighter-Jet Decision By Patrick Goodenough http://cnsnews.com/source/patrick-goodenough September 22, 2011 http://w.sharethis.com/images/check-small.png http://cnsnews.com/image/f-16-0 F-16 Lockheed Martin calls its F-16 Fighting Falcon the world's most capable multirole fighter. (Image: Lockheed Martin) (CNSNews.com) - Republican critics accuse the Obama administration of bowing to Chinese pressure with its decision to upgrade aging Taiwanese warplanes rather than sell the island the later generation fighters it has requested. The administration notified Congress Wednesday of its intention to help Taiwan retrofit its fleet of 145 F-16 Fighting Falcon A (single seater) and B (two-seater) fighters bought 19 years ago, as part of a $5.85 billion arms package that includes equipment, parts, logistical support and a pilot training program. Taiwan's government thanked the U.S. but said it would continue pressing for its priority request, first made in 2006, to buy 66 F-16 C/D jets, to help defend itself against potential aggression from China, which views Taiwan as a rebellious province whose reunification with the mainland is inevitable. The upgrade of F-16 A/Bs will help enhance our defense capability, Taiwanese Foreign Affairs Minister Timothy Yang said during a late night press conference. We will continue to push for U.S. sale of F-16 C/Ds. http://cnsnews.com/image/f-16-2 F-16 Lockheed Martin calls its F-16 Fighting Falcon the world's most capable multirole fighter. (Image: Lockheed Martin) Separately, Defense Minister Kao Hua-chu pledged to continue urging the U.S. to provide new fighters, noting that the administration had not ruled out selling F-16 C/Ds in the future. Taiwan also has F-5s that are more than 30 years old. Earlier this week, Taiwan's deputy defense minister, Andrew Yang, was quoted as suggesting to an annual U.S.-Taiwan defense industry conference in Virginia that Chinese pressure was behind the holdup. These years, China is showing stronger and stronger reaction to U.S.-Taiwan arms sales, and that [has] turned your country more wary with arms sales, he said. The U.S.-Taiwan Business Council says the sale of the 66 F-16 C/Ds Taiwan has requested would help secure over 23,000 American jobs. Critics of the administration's decision not to sell Taiwan the fighters accused it of succumbing to Beijing. President Obama's refusal to sell Taiwan new military jets is yet another example of his weak leadership in foreign policy, said GOP presidential aspirant Mitt Romney. President Obama has ignored Taiwan's request and caved into the unreasonable demands of China at the cost of well-paying American jobs, he added. This deal has Beijing's fingerprints all over it, said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The upgrade of older model F-16s is a modest step in the right direction but woefully insufficient to meet Taiwan's increasingly urgent requirements for modern combat fighters and other defensive weapons systems, she said. Ros-Lehtinen said the decision to exclude F-16 C/Ds from the arms package called into question its commitment to longstanding policy to ensure that Taiwan is able to defend itself from mainland China, as legislatively mandated in the Taiwan Relations Act. The 1979 Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) commits the U.S. to provide Taiwan with the help it needs to defend itself against unprovoked aggression. Also expressing disappointment was the Formosan Association for Public Affairs, a Washington-based Taiwanese-American lobby, whose president Bob Yang said it was regrettable that the Obama administration is letting the PRC [Peoples Republic of China] set the terms for U.S. relations with a democratic Taiwan. This decision simply means that if push comes to shove in the Taiwan Strait, the U.S. will have to bear a much heavier burden in keeping China at bay, as Taiwan will simply not have adequate means to defend itself, Yang said. It is well known that China has been engaging in a major military buildup, while aging F-5 aircraft in Taiwan's air force are falling out of the sky. Such an imbalance invites aggression. In its 2010 annual report on Chinese military power, published last month, the Pentagon said China has a total of 1,680 fighter aircraft, 330 of which are based within range of Taiwan; Taiwan has 388 fighters. The majority of [Chinese Air Force and Navy] aircraft are based in the eastern half of the country, the report stated. Currently, 490 aircraft [fighters, bombers and others] could conduct combat operations against Taiwan without refueling. However, this number could be significantly increased through any combination of aircraft forward deployment, decreased ordnance loads, or altered mission profiles. 'Reverse the pattern of
[osint] Danish Mega-Mosque Funded by Iranian Terrorists
http://tinyurl.com/3ebro66 Danish Mega-Mosque Funded by Iran http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011092214552/world/geopolitics/danish-mega-mo sque-funded-by-iran.html Thursday, 22 September 2011 05:57 Soeren Kern http://www.rightsidenews.com/component/option,com_mailto/link,d389d656fa0b1 f4340545eadc2d85c4b3fbd/tmpl,component/ E-mail http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011092214552/world/geopolitics/danish-mega-mo sque-funded-by-iran/print.html Print http://www.rightsidenews.com/pdf/2011092214552/world/geopolitics/danish-meg a-mosque-funded-by-iran.pdf PDF ...critics say that theocrats in Tehran intend to use the mosque to establish a recruiting center for the militant Shia Muslim group, Hezbollah in Europe... The city council of Copenhagen has given its final approval for the construction of the first official Grand Mosque in the Danish capital. The mega-mosque will have a massive blue dome as well as two towering minarets and is architecturally designed to stand out on Copenhagen's low-rise skyline. Copenhagen_Mega_Mosque_by_IranUnlike most mosques in Europe, which cater to Sunni Muslims, the mosque in Copenhagen pertains to Shia Islam. The mosque is being financed by the Islamic Republic of Iran; critics say that theocrats in Tehran intend to use the mosque to establish a recruiting center for the militant Shia Muslim group, Hezbollah in Europe. Critics of the Shia mosque have warned local politicians that the building will be owned by the Iranian regime for use as a propaganda center as well as a platform from which to recruit impressionable Muslim immigrant youths for service to Hezbollah. But the Copenhagen city council states that who pays for building the mosque is none of its concern. The Copenhagen mosque is, in fact, being built by Ahlul Beit Foundation http://www.aimislam.com/ , a radical Shia Muslim proselytizing and political lobbying group run by the Iranian government. Ahlul Beit already runs around 70 Islamic centers around the world, and has, as its primary goal, the promoting of the religious and political views of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Ahlul-Beit is opposed to all brands of Islam that compete with the form of Islam dictated by theocrats in Iran: the organization has called for the persecution of Sunni Muslims, Sufi Muslims, and Alawites as well as all secular and moderate Muslims. The organization is also vociferously opposed to the integration of Muslim immigrants into their host societies. Ahlul Beit is especially focused on spreading Islamic Sharia law beyond the Middle East; its centers in Africa and Asia, for example, have been used to radicalize local Muslim communities. In a typical quid-pro-quo arrangement, the organization offers money to the poor who then convert to Shia Islam and are subjected to religious training by Iranian-backed Imams. The group has been banned in at least a dozen countries. In Europe, Ahlul Beit mosques are usually presented to the general public as centers for cultural and sports activities, but in practice they are often used by Iranian intelligence to monitor Iranians living abroad as well as to harass Iranian dissidents. In Germany, the Imam Ali mosque in Hamburg was linked to the September 1992 assassination of four leaders of the Iranian Kurdish Democratic Party at the Mykonos restaurant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykonos_restaurant_assassinations in Berlin. In Britain, the Ahlul Beit mosque in London has been involved in issuing death threats against the British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie. The mosque has also been used to recruit terrorists and to spy on Iranian exiles living in Britain. Mohammed Mahdi Khademi, the man who is set to become the main imam at the new mosque in Copenhagen, is a former military officer who ran the ideology department of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps until 2004, when he was hand-picked by the Iranian regime to move to Denmark. Many Iranian exiles believe Khademi has close ties to Iranian intelligence and fear the new mosque will be used against them. Some members of the Iranian democracy movement say the Copenhagen mosque is about far more than just the issue of freedom of religion. They say it is about Iran's desire to establish a political-religious foothold for extremist Islam in northern Europe. Farrokh Jafari, an Iranian exile who recently organized a protest against the mosque, told the Copenhagen-based Berlingske daily newspaper http://www.b.dk/koebenhavn/demonstration-mod-stormoske-i-koebenhavn that he is not opposed to having a mosque in the city, but that he wants to draw attention to Ahlul Beit's dubious intentions. We are protesting against Copenhagen's plans for a Grand Mosque, which is being paid for by the Iranian theocracy. We fear that the mosque will not serve its religious purposes, but simply camouflage Iran's extended arms in Denmark, Jafari said. He continued: We are not afraid of the mosque itself. We are supporters of religious freedom, and Muslims in Denmark
[osint] US, Allies Walk-out of UN during Malignant Dwarf's Speech
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/ahmadinejad-iran-sept-11/2011/09/22/id/4119 53?s=al http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/ahmadinejad-iran-sept-11/2011/09/22/id/411 953?s=alpromo_code=D1A9-1 promo_code=D1A9-1 Iran's Ahmadinejad Blasts US for 9/11 Attacks, Zionism Thursday, 22 Sep 2011 01:54 PM UNITED NATIONS - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Thursday accused the United States of using the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks as a pretext to launch wars on Iraq and Afghanistan. Ahmadinejad, in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly that prompted a walk-out by U.S. and other western diplomats, called the Sept. 11 attacks mysterious and said the United States and its allies view Zionism as a sacred notion and ideology. By using their imperialistic media network which is under the influence of colonialism they threaten anyone who questions the Holocaust and the September 11 event with sanctions and military actions, he said. Ahmadinejad attacked Western powers for a catalogue of misdeeds, but his address to the United Nations failed to mention Tehran's disputed nuclear program. The U.S. delegation walked out when Ahmadinejad said arrogant powers threatened anyone who questioned the Holocaust and the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States with sanctions and military action. Other Western delegations soon made their exit. Ahmadinejad made only a passing reference to the Palestinian issue which has overshadowed this year's U.N. General Assembly and did not comment on the Palestinian plan to ask the U.N. Security Council to recognize their nascent state. He accused the United States of using the mysterious Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as a pretext to launch wars on Iraq and Afghanistan. The United States and its allies view Zionism as a sacred notion and ideology, the Iranian leader said. Mark Kornblau, spokesman for the U.S. mission at the United Nations, condemned Ahmadinejad's remarks. Mr Ahmadinejad had a chance to address his own people's aspirations for freedom and dignity, but instead he again turned to abhorrent anti-Semitic slurs and despicable conspiracy theories, Kornblau said in a statement. Ahmadinejad's address also passed in silence over the pro-democracy uprisings that have swept the Arab world this year, including Syria, Iran's closest Arab ally. U.S. President Barack Obama told the United Nations Wednesday that Iran and North Korea risked more pressure if they pursued nuclear programs that flouted international law. There is a future of greater opportunity for the people of these nations if their governments meet their obligations. But if they continue down a path that is outside international law, they must be met with greater pressure and isolation, he said. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Results of a Disarmed Societey: Rush Hour Traffic Disrupted as Mexican Gunmen Dump 35 Bodies on Avenue
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-09-20/drug-war-mexico/50486328 /1?csp=Dailybriefing Mexico horror: Gunmen dump 35 bodies on avenue Updated 2h 9m ago MEXICO CITY (AP) - Suspected drug traffickers drove two trucks to a main avenue in a Mexican Gulf coast city and dumped 35 slaying victims during rush hour while gunmen stood guard and pointed their weapons at frightened motorists. * http://i.usatoday.net/news/_photos/2011/09/20/Mexico-gunmen-dump-35-bodies- 6LDE597-x-large.jpg Mexican authorities at the scene where 35 bodies were found at the Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez Blvd in Boca del Rio municipality. AFP/Getty Images Mexican authorities at the scene where 35 bodies were found at the Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez Blvd in Boca del Rio municipality. Mexican authorities at the scene where 35 bodies were found at the Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez Blvd in Boca del Rio municipality. The gruesome scene Tuesday in the downtown of Boca del Rio was the latest escalation in drug violence in Veracruz state, which sits on an important route for drugs and Central American migrants heading north. The Zetas drug cartel has been locked in a bloody war with drug gangs for control of the state. Veracruz state Attorney General Reynaldo Escobar Perez said the bodies were left piled in two trucks and on the ground at an underpass near the city's biggest shopping mall and its statue of the Voladores de Papantla - ritual dancers from Veracruz state. Police had identified seven of the victims so far and all had criminal records for murder, drug dealing, kidnapping and extortion and were linked to organized crime, Escobar said. He didn't say to what group the victims belonged. Motorists caught in the horrifying scene Tuesday afternoon posted warnings on Twitter that masked gunmen in military uniforms were blocking Manuel Avila Camacho Boulevard and pointing their guns at civilians. They don't seem to be soldiers or police, one tweet read. Another said, Don't go through that area, there is danger. Escobar said police were reviewing surveillance video recorded in the area. Local media said that 12 of the victims were women and that some of the dead men had been among prisoners who escaped from three Veracruz prisons on Monday, but Escobar said he couldn't confirm that. At least 32 inmates got away from the three Veracruz prisons. Police recaptured 14 of them. Earlier Tuesday, the Mexican army announced it had captured a key figure in the cult-like Knights Templar http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Knights+Templar drug cartel that is sowing violence in western Mexico. Saul Solis Solis, 49, a former police chief and one-time congressional candidate, was captured without incident Monday in the cartel's home state of Michoacan, Brig. Gen. Edgar Luis Villegas said during a presentation of Solis to the media. Solis is considered one of the principal lieutenants in the Knights Templar, which split late last year from La Familia http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/La+Familia , a pseudo-religious drug gang known as a major trafficker of methamphetamine. Drug violence has claimed more than 35,000 lives across Mexico since 2006, according to government figures. Others put the number at more than 40,000. In northern Mexico, the army announced the detention of two more suspects in a casino fire that killed 52 people last month in the northern city of Monterrey. The two men captured at a bar in Monterrey late Monday confessed to being members of the Zetas drug cartel and participating in the attack, federal prosecutors said. Separately in Nuevo Leon, Mexican marines captured 19 alleged members of the Zetas drug cartel at a ranch that was being used as a training camp in the town of Colombia, the military announced. A navy statement said that seven minors were among those detained and that marines seized four rifles, a pistol, and several military uniforms and boots. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We
[osint] Iran Finally Frees US Hikers on $1 million Bail
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/09/fox-two-us-h ikers-released-by-iran-to-the-oman-envoy/1?csp=breakingnews Sep 21, 2011 Two freed U.S. hikers head for Tehran airport By Douglas Stanglin http://content.usatoday.com/topics/reporter/Douglas+Stanglin , USA TODAY Updated 12m ago Two U.S. hikers jailed in Iran two years ago on espionage charges have been freed on $500,000 bail. Update at 10:16 a.m. ET: Two Americans jailed in Iran as spies have been released from Tehran's prison after more than two years in custody, the AP reports. AP reporters saw a convoy of vehicles with Swiss and Omani diplomats leaving Evin prison with the freed Americans, heading for Tehran international airport. Update at 10 a.m. ET: Reuters reports that Bauer and Fattal and heading to the airport, according to the BBC. Update at 8:14 a.m. ET: The BBC reports http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15000563 that Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal have been handed over to the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, which represents U.S. interests in Iran. Update at 7:47 a.m. ET: CNN reports that the pair have been released from prison, quoting an unnamed U.S. official. Update at 7:39 a.m. ET: Iranian state TV reports http://www.presstv.ir/detail/200375.html that the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic Iran has confirmed the release of two U.S. nationals, who had been convicted of illegal entry and espionage in Iran, on bail. Here is Press TV's report: Branch 36 of Tehran's Appeals Court has agreed to reduce the detention sentences of the two U.S. nationals and instead release them on a bail of $500,000 each, a statement released by Iran's Judiciary said on Wednesday. Shane Michael Bauer and Joshua Felix Fattal had earlier been sentenced by Branch 15 of Tehran's Revolution Court to eight years in prison on charges of illegal entry and espionage. Sarah Emily Shourd, who had also been detained along with Bauer and Fattal, was released in September 2010 on a $500,000 bail. Bauer, Fattal and Shourd were arrested on Iranian territory in July 2009 after illegally crossing the border from the mountains of northern Iraq's Kurdistan region. They were later charged with espionage after the Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi found compelling evidence that the three U.S. citizens had been cooperating with US intelligence agencies. Update at 7:26 a.m. ET: Iranian State TV says it has learned that the Iranian government has released American hikers Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal http://www.presstv.ir/detail/200356.html , who have been held for almost two years for alleged illegal entry into Iran and espionage. The lawyer for the pair says only that a deal has been struck for the release of the pair, the Associated Press reports. Iranian attorney Masoud Shafiei said he planned to go to Tehran's Evin prison to begin the procedure for the release of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal. The case is over, Shafiei said. The court has ordered that they be freed on bail, he added. Shafiei said the bail of $500,000 for each of the men was posted after some last-minute bank problems were resolved, the AP reports. He did not say who put up the money, The two were arrested along the Iran-Iraq border in July 2009 and sentenced last month to eight years each in prison. A third American arrested with them, Sarah Shourd, was freed last year on bail. Original post: Fox News quotes an unidentified State Department source as saying two jailed American hikers imprisoned in Iran have been released http://www.foxnews.com/ to the Oman envoy. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to:
[osint] 2012 Presidential Candidates - One Question Only
http://tinyurl.com/5rlpnca 2012 Presidential Candidates http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011092114541/editorial/us-opinion-and-editori al/2012-presidential-candidates-one-question-only.html - One Question Only Tuesday, 20 September 2011 19:04 JB Williams http://www.rightsidenews.com/component/option,com_mailto/link,a496c9ca9c25c 3194c23f4518db06afb2333b63a/tmpl,component/ E-mail http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011092114541/editorial/us-opinion-and-editori al/2012-presidential-candidates-one-question-only/print.html Print http://www.rightsidenews.com/pdf/2011092114541/editorial/us-opinion-and-edi torial/2012-presidential-candidates-one-question-only.pdf PDF As the 2012 election cycle heats up, the most pressing issue facing our nation today is the reinstatement of the U.S. Constitution as the Law of this Land, and the survival of our constitutional republic, complete with sovereign borders, the rule of law, states rights and a republican form of government guaranteed every citizen by the Constitution. There is no more pressing issue in America today. As reinstating the U.S. Constitution is the highest priority of the 2012 election, and the fact that reinstating Article II requirements for the office of president is first and foremost in the effort to reinstate the constitution as the supreme law of this land, all presidential candidates must face the most vital question of the day. If you like this article, please subscribe to our daily newsletter http://rightsidenews.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=1cf0488db68779540d6924 66fid=80b67972fb Before being entrusted with the most powerful political office in our land and the world for that matter, I have only ONE question for every candidate seeking the office of President of the United States. rsn_betrayal_175Based upon the mountain of evidence available which has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that Barack Hussein Obama II is not a Natural Born Citizen of the United States, and is therefore, ineligible for the office of President according to Article II - Section 1 - Clause V which clearly states - No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President;- and as a candidate with legal standing to challenge the legitimacy of any fellow candidate, will you challenge Barack Hussein Obama's right to even appear on the 2012 ballot? Every candidate for the office of president has the legal standing to challenge Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility for the office he is seeking re-election to in 2012. The fact that Democrats were able to trick Americans into voting for an totally ineligible candidate in 2008, has no bearing on the fact that the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on American voters cannot be allowed to continue. Simply electing someone else in 2012 will not solve the problem. It will only sweep the problem under the rug, allowing all involved in an overt act of treason against the American people, to walk away free from accountability. The next election will not deliver justice to the American people, nor will it reverse the precedence set in allowing a known ineligible candidate to hold the highest office in our land. The people responsible for the 2008 fraudulent election of Barack Hussein Obama II must be brought to justice. Every 2012 candidate is in a position of legal standing to end the charade. Barack Obama has governed like a foreign-born domestic enemy because he is a domestic enemy with foreign loyalties. Countless private investigations into Obama's past have provided the answers necessary to charge Obama with high crimes. Those investigations have also turned up many more questions about whom and what Barack Obama really is. Hundreds of legal briefs concerning Barack Obama, representing millions of Americans, have been denied access to the courts due to an alleged lack of standing, based upon Rules of Procedure put in place in 1946, to control civilian access to justice. But every candidate for the office of president has legal standing to challenge the constitutional eligibility of any competing candidate and at least one candidate must have the courage to do it, or none of them deserve the support of the American voter. The current anti-American administration has not only driven the nation in over its head in debt and destroyed the American economy. They have systematically destroyed all of the free-market mechanisms necessary for any real economic recovery. It isn't just our economic standing in the world which hangs in the balance, but freedom and liberty itself. Which 2012 candidate for the office of president has the backbone for the job ahead? Enough with the standard political banter over a myriad of side show issues. The Constitution is currently out of force and effect. Before America will have a future, it must reinstate the law of the land, beginning with Article II. The primary job of
[osint] The Arab Spring and Russian Policy in the Middle East
The Arab Spring and Russian Policy in the Middle East http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011092014538/world/geopolitics/the-arab-sprin g-and-russian-policy-in-the-middle-east.html Tuesday, 20 September 2011 04:22 Zvi Magen http://www.rightsidenews.com/component/option,com_mailto/link,ad3aecfbce900 0cf3fc9d0394443a6aeda15f348/tmpl,component/ E-mail http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011092014538/world/geopolitics/the-arab-sprin g-and-russian-policy-in-the-middle-east/print.html Print http://www.rightsidenews.com/pdf/2011092014538/world/geopolitics/the-arab-s pring-and-russian-policy-in-the-middle-east.pdf PDF In what perhaps can be heralded as a turning point in Russia's Middle East policy, seemingly coordinated statements have recently been sounded in important settings and the media by senior Russian figures (leading experts on the Middle East, politicians, and even the president himself). These statements have included criticism of the revolutionary process underway in the Middle East, portrayed as fundamentally negative and rife with risks for both regional and global stability. According to these pronouncements, the Arab spring gradually evolved into an Islamic summer by paving the way for the rise to power of forces from the radical Islamic camp in an essentially irreversible process. If you like this article, please subscribe to our daily newsletter http://rightsidenews.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=1cf0488db68779540d6924 66fid=80b67972fb In the view of these figures, while these unforeseen revolutions were jumpstarted among the younger generation by socioeconomic reasons and demands for political freedom, the younger generation does not have the power to maintain the revolutions' achievements. The reins of government will be assumed by organized systems that joined the opposition to existing regimes, including many Islamic elements that are already poised to take advantage of the situation and are soon expected to reach influential positions in the respective countries. According to the Russians, democracy does not stand a chance in Middle Eastern countries, characterized as they are by archaic societies. Future regimes can be expected to be anti-democratic and primarily Islamic in nature. Thus, these figures predict doom and gloom for most of the region's states, and the process underway is one that in their opinion cannot be stopped. There is a wistful longing for the previous regimes, as corrupt and authoritarian as they were, particularly for their stability and anti-Islamic stances. Likely future regimes will at best follow the Turkish model, or in a worst case scenario, the Iranian. According to the Russians, this reality has dire consequences for regional and even global orders. The situation is likely to be influenced by the negative changes in Turkey, portrayed as striving relentlessly to reconstruct the Ottoman Empire, and the Iranian nuclear program, which apparently cannot be stopped and may be expected to be complete in 2-3 years. This has serious implications for international stability, especially since additional nations in the region will work to attain nuclear power. In turn the international arms control regime is likely to collapse - a potential development that incurs major ramifications. In such a reality, the Islamic forces likely to assume power will not be partners to a dialogue with the international community, rather will strive to realize their own geopolitical ambitions. In this context the international system emerges as inefficient, if not impotent. International organizations such as the UN and NATO have failed to confront the evolving risk and therefore enjoy less importance. The United States is portrayed as losing its influence both in the Middle East and in the international arena. Europe too is retreating under Islamic attack, and sooner or later Islam will overpower it from within. With the West declining both in the Middle East and in the world at large, Islam is set to prevail over the West. This new apocalyptic Russian scenario is surprising, given that until recently Russia appeared as a friend and defender of the nations of the Middle East, including those with Islamic regimes, and various radical organizations (including, for example, members of the axis of evil). Russia has displayed evident support for the collapsing regimes of the Middle East and has labored to preserve the status quo, including its attempt to impede Western involvement in Libya and even more so in Syria. In addition, it enjoys positive relations with Turkey and special relations with Iran. Its warm relations with the Palestinians include support in the United Nations and support for Hamas. At the same time, already from the start of the revolutionary process in the Middle East, Russia has, in its ambivalent way, worked to establish cooperation with the new regimes and elements of the opposition, by laying the groundwork for relations with what will likely be the region's
[osint] Why Obama Is Responsible for War in the Mideast
Why Obama Is Responsible for the Mideast Powder Keg Posted By Ben Shapiro On September 21, 2011 President Barack Hussein Obama has a choice this week at the United Nations as the Palestinian Authority led by Mahmoud Abbas calls for a vote on Palestinian statehood, whether or not the vote is actually averted http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-un-palestinians-2011092 1,0,4194458.story?track=rssutm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campai gn=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fnews%2Fnationworld%2Fworld+%28L.A.+Times+-+World+News%2 9utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher by some sort of Western payoff to the terrorist organization. As background, it should be noted that it has long been the position of the United Nations that there ought to be a Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip. So what would change with any such resolution? Presumably, in any vote, the Palestinians would ask for - and, in the General Assembly, receive - voting rights. They would also attempt to grab East Jerusalem as their capital, including the Temple Mount, and probably ask to control their own borders. Given the presence of Hamas in the middle of this proposed deal - and given the history of the PLO itself - such a demand would create the largest single terror state on the planet. The Palestinians would leave the so-called right of return for another time, a sword hanging over the Israelis' heads. They would not solidify the borders of Gaza and the West Bank, allowing them to terrorize Israel further while demanding more concessions. They would not allow any Jews inside the borders of their new state - no shock, considering that most Arab states ban Jews outright. If the vote goes forward and the United States shoots down the Palestinian resolution in the Security Council, the Arabs in Palestinian-controlled territories will riot. They will demand that Israel withdraw immediately from the territories, and they will call on their allies in the Arab world to jack up oil prices to punish the United States. The long term result could be a move into the Sinai by the Egyptian forces, providing weapons and ammunition to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Mahmoud Abbas will form a unity government with Hamas to attack Israel. Israel will be forced to move into Palestinian-controlled areas and clean out terrorist havens, and the world will condemn them for it. Many Jews will die - but, as we've learned, Jewish blood is cheap for those who live comfortably in Europe. And, apparently, also for President Obama, who has allowed every anti-Israel, anti-American group in the Middle East to consolidate control of government. For all of his flaws - and there were many - President Mubarak of Egypt did not allow his military to threaten Israel. Within the first few months of his departure, however, the Egyptian population has attacked the Israeli embassy and torn down its walls. The military has begun funneling weapons to the Palestinians. In Libya, the Obama strategy has allowed a Muslim Brotherhood-led opposition to come close to power. In Iran, it has allowed the mullahs to crush all legitimate opposition. The Palestinians believe that they have an ally in President Obama, and they mean to exploit it while he is still in office. They may delay the vote for a few months if Obama gives them some goodies in return. But in essence, they know they had best act now. They realize what has now become obvious: if President Obama had been president in 1948, he would have voted against the establishment of the State of Israel. To him, Israel is a historic mistake, and were he not bound by electoral politics and an adversarial Congress, he would undoubtedly do more to aid its enemies. How will all of this end? The same way it always does. Time is the friend of the Arab states, and the enemy of Israel. However the resolution to be introduced at the UN turns out, Iran grows every day closer to a nuclear weapon, which will have only one target. Each day, the Israeli population dwindles and the Arab population grows in relative terms. Without the backing of the United States, Israel will not be able to survive future wars. It will be tough enough to survive the war of words about to begin in New York. _ Article printed from FrontPage Magazine: http://frontpagemag.com URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/21/why-obama-is-responsible-for-war-in-the-m iddle-east/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not
[osint] Palestinian State: Next Step in Driving the Jews into the Sea
What Will the New Palestinian State Look Like? Posted By Giulio Meotti On September 21, 2011 Global leaders are so busy pontificating on how essential it is for a State of Palestine to be founded that none of them seems to have noticed that it already exists. Since the Palestinian Authority was established in 1994, the contours of the State of Palestine have taken form in front of our eyes. So what will this famous State of Palestine look like? It will be a racist state ethnically cleansed of Jews, as the PLO representatives proclaimed the last week. A state led by Holocaust enablers like Hamas or by a Holocaust denier like Mahmoud Abbas, who, in a book, downgraded the number of Jewish victims and denied that the gas chambers were used to murder Jews. In any case, Palestine would be a state committed to the destruction of the nearby Jews' homeland. It will also be a state that will banish freedom of conscience for artists, journalists and writers. A state that will drive away Christians from the land, while proclaiming Jesus the first fedayeen. A state that will stone to death Arab homosexuals and prostitutes, who are now finding shelter in Israel. A state that will torture Arab inmates in prisons and that will throw political dissidents from the roofs of public buildings. A state where the Iranian clergy will preach Khomeinist ideology. A state that will accept money and support from the genocidal Muslim Brotherhood in the name of the caliphate or death, as the Islamists who assassinated Egypt's Anwar Sadat in 1981 decorated their holding cages. A state where the Sharia - the Islamic legal code - will be the only rule of law. A state that will be put to death human beings simply because they are guilty of apostasy (conversion to Christianity). A state where women will be obliged to wear headscarves. A state where honor killings will terrorize the female population. A state that will commemorate terrorists, human suicide bombers and baby killers in public squares, streets and monuments. A state that will not hold democratic elections, but will be a combination of corruption, dictatorship, Islamic theology and Bin-ladenism. A state where terror militias will cut the fingers of smokers. A state where public libraries will become the largest global archives of anti-Semitic books. A state that will ban drinking in public buildings. A state where liquor stores will be blown up by terror groups. A state where men will be banned from women's hair salons. A state where security forces will arrest people for expressing opinions unpopular with the regime, as well as punishing media organizations and journalists for their coverage of such statements. A state where the ratio of militiamen to civilians will be higher than in any other country. A state where worshipers in mosques will be gunned down by terrorists. A state that will encourage a new category of Arab refugees - those who would gladly escape oppressive and murderous Palestinian control. A state where ambulances will be stopped on the way to hospitals and wounded will be shot in cold blood. A state that would be a heavily armed union of rejectionists, all dedicated to destroying any shred of Western values. A state where young couples will not walk hand-in-hand in the Al Manar Square of Ramallah, and where plainclothes officers will halt them in the streets, demanding to see marriage licenses. A state that will declare war on Judaism, depicting Jewish history in the Middle East as no more than an insignificant, brief sojourn by arrogant colonizers. Who would live in such a state? So why is the world swooning over the creation of the State of Palestine? Is it because Arab state number 23 and Muslim state number 58 would be the perfect tool for the vaporization of the lone Jewish state in the world? Six miles is the distance between the Israeli city of Afula from the State of Palestine. Nine miles to the city of Netanya. Eleven miles to reach the skyscrapers of Tel Aviv. Four miles to bomb the Ben Gurion International Airport. Just a mile to the city of Kfar Saba. Building the small Palestinian caliphate on Israel's shoulders is the first step toward driving the Jews into the sea. _ Article printed from FrontPage Magazine: http://frontpagemag.com URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/21/what-will-the-new-palestinian-state-look- like/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT,
[osint] CNN Fake War Video Exposed
CNN: first the Communist News Network, then the Clinton News Network and the Crescent News Network. Not news at all. B The lame stream media will go to any length to frame your perception of events, and the war in Libya is no exception. CNN gets busted, again... Video: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/4999.html - Brasscheck P.S. Please share Brasscheck TV e-mails and videos with friends and colleagues. That's how we grow. Thanks. Brasscheck TV 2380 California St. San Francisco, CA 94115 To unsubscribe or change subscriber options visit: http://www.aweber.com/z/r/?zAxs7OwctMzsjAzMrJyMtEa0jIzsrOwMbKw= - Brasscheck P.S. Please share Brasscheck TV e-mails and videos with friends and colleagues. That's how we grow. Thanks. Brasscheck TV 2380 California St. San Francisco, CA 94115 To unsubscribe or change subscriber options visit: http://www.aweber.com/z/r/?zAxs7OwctCzsnIzsrBystEa0jIycbOwMrEw= [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] America: The Chief Subsidizer of UN Rapists and Traffickers
America: The Chief Subsidizer of UN Rapists and Traffickers Posted By Phyllis Chesler On September 21, 2011 In early September, the world's most ineffective collection of low life thugs had what they like to call http://www.un.org/en/ga/info/meetings/66schedule.shtml high level meetings [1] on disease, disabilities, and the rights of migrant workers. And, on September 13, 2011, the 66th session - drum roll, please - of the United Nation's General Assembly formally convened. On September 22, they will get down to the real business at hand, the only thing the UN has ever really done effectively, namely, the legalization of Jew hatred. That's the day the UN will celebrate the tenth anniversary of their Durban (anti-Semitic, pro-racist) conference in which they named Israel as the world's only racist state. On September 23, former terrorist turned President Mahmoud Abbas will request that the UN admit a twentieth Arab Muslim (so-called Palestinian) state. http://pajamasmedia.com/files/2011/09/solzhenitsyn.jpg http://pajamasmedia.com/files/2011/09/solzhenitsyn.jpg [2] This global pogrom against Israel is being waged with a weapon of mass destruction, namely the Orwellian propaganda machine which has demonized the Jewish state so effectively that were it to be militarily attacked (as it has been, over and over), few nations would come to its aid (none have) and most would condemn its right to defend itself; indeed, they would label Jewish self-defense as an act of naked aggression for which Israel would be expected to apologize and pay Muslim-style blood money. This, too, has already happened. Were our nation to come to the aid of its ally, Israel, America would also be further demonized. But I do not want to focus on the subjects of racism, Judeophobia, Islamophobia, or on the rights of Palestinian Arabs. Many other journalists are doing so. Actually, I do but from an entirely different point of view. I want to discuss the kind of human beings who are employed at the UN, how they treat each other on the job, but especially how they treat the vulnerable civilians who are under their protection. In other words: I want to focus on the professional ethics of the people who are voting on such weighty, global issues, and on the institutionalized crimes they commit under the auspices of the UN. Nearly forty years ago, in his 1972 Nobel Prize acceptance speech (some honorees are actually worthy), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said: A quarter of a century ago, with great hopes from all mankind, the United Nations Organization was born. Alas, in an immoral world it too grew up immoral. In 1973, Shirley Hazzard, an Australian civil servant who had worked for the UN Secretariat for a decade in New York, published a book about it. In Defeat of an Ideal: A Study of the Self-Destruction of the United Nations, Hazzard described a level of mediocrity, incompetence, petty despotism, corruption, hypocrisy, and overall impotence, which was so non-redeemable that, in her view, the otherwise lofty UN ideals were being defeated by the manner in which the present body executes, or claims to execute them. And in 1990, Hazzard wrote another book, Countenance of Truth: The United Nations and the Waldheim Case, in which she indicted the UN again, explaining that the problem of the Austrian (and one-time Nazi) UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim was merely symptomatic of the (ongoing) structural defects at the UN which include non-accountability, non-transparency, incompetence, cowardice, and exaggerated self-importance. Only in such a setting, Hazzard writes, could such a deceitful figure be presented as a paragon, his very deficiencies exalted into talents, and his fawnings on tyrants rationalized as consummate diplomacy throughout ten of this world's most cruel and dangerous years. I wonder what either of these whistleblowers might have to say about the UN today. http://pajamasmedia.com/files/2011/09/the_whistleblower_poster_2.jpg http://pajamasmedia.com/files/2011/09/the_whistleblower_poster_2.jpg[3] God must love whistleblowers - I surely hope so, because no one else really does. Those whom whistleblowers expose - and that includes the bystanders and the bureaucrats - hate them. Whistleblowers ruin the party, and threaten the high life and the even higher self-regard that the scams allow. Therefore, the evildoers demean, ostracize, impoverish, ignore, crush, and, if necessary, try to kill the whistleblowers. Even when whistleblowers are willing to risk their jobs and their lives, they do not always win their cause. And, when a whistleblower does succeed, he or she may still end up in hiding or unemployed or murdered while evil-doers soon pick up the old scam. In the early 1970s, Detective Frank (police corruption) Serpico was the torchbearer for whistleblowers. He passed that torch along to Karen (plutonium) Silkwood in the 1980s and to Erin(hexavalent-chromium) Brockovich in the 1990s. One 21st century heroic torchbearer,
[osint] Obama Ignored Saudi Pleas to Combat Takeover of Lebanon
Obama Admin. Ignored Saudi Pleas to Combat Takeover of Lebanon Posted By Phillip Smyth On September 20, 2011 Once a key U.S. partner in the Middle East, the Saudis are unhappy with the Obama administration, and thus the United States. They are angry that the White House never consulted them about helping to bring down the Mubarak regime in Egypt. But their greatest wrath is reserved for the U.S. government's failure to oppose the Iranian regime's expansionism and subversion. In one Wikileaks-leaked State Department document after another, Riyadh's anger is apparent. The traditionally confrontation-averse Saudis - as a phrase in one of the reports calls them - also make clear that the threat of force as well as words is necessary to stop Iran. A recently released secret 2009 U.S. State Department memo written for General Petraeus discussed this Saudi view of Iran and U.S. policy toward Iran at length: The Saudis see a dangerous Shia power bent on destabilizing the region. . They remain concerned that we might be prepared to accept an enhanced role for Iran in the region in exchange for concessions on its nuclear program. In other words, the Saudis thought the United States might sell them out. The king correctly predicted that the Obama engagement policy toward Iran would fail. The Saudis described Iran's power, the spread of its radical Shia Islamist ideology pushing Shia minorities to revolt in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, and its nuclear program as the main threats to Saudi Arabia. Israel and the Palestinian issue didn't make the list. In a meeting with U.S. Air Force Lt. General Mike Hostage, Saudi Air Force General Faisal al-Saud asserted that he had conclusive proof of Iranian involvement in the Houthi insurgency in Yemen. In the spring of 2011, Saudi forces arrived in Bahrain, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet is based, to quash a mainly Shia uprising - in part backed by Iran - against the ruling Sunni minority. Additionally, the Saudis didn't stand idly by as pro-Iranian Houthis (whose slogan is: God is greatest, death to America, death to Israel, God curse the Jews, victory for Islam) in neighboring Yemen attacked Saudi forces in 2009. In private, the Saudis were vocal in calling for Israel to strike Iranian nuclear facilities. Faisal al-Saud offered a parable to show the Saudis' critical view of U.S. policy toward Iran: A neighbor's house bursts into flame, and the closest neighbor [the United States] says he will come to help soon but then doesn't, citing policy as preventing him, but hoping he will still be considered a very good friend. Meanwhile, others who are not close friends are helping. In Lebanon, the government was ruled by the pro-Western, pro-Saudi March 14 alliance. That Sunni Muslims, Christian, and Druze coalition was a bulwark against the heavily armed, pro-Iranian Hizballah, and to Iranian and Syrian influence. The Saudis early on appreciated the danger of a takeover by radical forces and the need to do something about it. In 2007, Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Abdulaziz Khoja told then-U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman that he doubted whether the GOL [Government of Lebanon] and the March 14 forces had the strength to sustain the fight over the long term without significant outside help. He urged that Washington support a covert program of arming the moderates, telling Feltman: We must help [March 14 leaders] Saad (Hariri), Walid (Jumblatt), and even (Samir) Geagea with money and arms. While some Christian and Druze militias trained, they lacked arms. They were in no way as strong as the immensely equipped Hizballah. There is no real trained and equipped Sunni Muslim armed force at all. Apparently, the U.S. government did nothing. A little over a year later, Hizballah defied the government's demand to shut down its fiber optic network that some Lebanese leaders claimed was being used to spy on the government and others. In response, Hizballah mobilized its military forces, briefly seized half of Beirut - an easy task since there were few organized Sunni Muslim, pro-government defenders - and attacked the Druze-inhabited Shouf region with artillery and armed units. The martial Druze stopped the advance. In the middle of this heavy fighting between often ill-equipped pro-March 14 forces and Hizballah, Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal discussed the Saudis' preferred solution to the situation with U.S. Ambassador David Satterfield. According to the report, Faisal stated: The effort by Hizballah and Iran to take over Beirut was the first step in a process that would lead to the overthrow of the . government and an Iranian takeover of all Lebanon. Faisal wanted an Arab force that would work with UNIFIL, which according to Satterfield is sitting doing nothing. NATO and the United States would provide the Arab force with air and naval power. Faisal suggested this would be an easier battle to win than fighting Iraqi insurgents or Palestinian Hamas, both groups that the
[osint] Gov. Rick Perry: Obama's Middle East Policy Is Naive, Arrogant, Misguided and Dangerous
http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/09/20/gov-rick-perry-obamas-middle-east- policy-is-naive-arrogant-misguided-and-dangerous/?singlepage=true Gov. Rick Perry: Obamas Middle East Policy Is Naive, Arrogant, Misguided and Dangerous Thank you. Let me begin by thanking Dr. Solomon Frager and Aron Hirtz for helping us organize this press conference today. I am joined today by a diverse group of Jewish leaders from here and abroad who share my concern that the United Nations could take action this week to legitimize the Palestinian gambit to establish statehood in violation of the spirit of the 1993 Oslo Accords. We are indignant that certain Middle Eastern leaders have discarded the principle of direct negotiations between the sovereign nation of Israel and the Palestinian leadership, and we are equally indignant that the Obama Administrations Middle East policy of appeasement has encouraged such an ominous act of bad faith. Simply put, we would not be here today at the precipice of such a dangerous move if the Obama Policy in the Middle East wasnt naïve, arrogant, misguided and dangerous. It must be said, first, that Israel is our oldest and strongest democratic ally in the Middle East and has been for more than 60 years. The Obama Policy of moral equivalency which gives equal standing to the grievances of Israelis and Palestinians, including the orchestrators of terrorism, is a dangerous insult. There is no middle ground between our allies and those who seek their destruction. America should not be ambivalent between the terrorist tactics of Hamas and the security tactics of the legitimate and free state of Israel. By proposing indirect talks through the U.S. rather than between Palestinian leaders and Israel, this administration encouraged the Palestinians to shun direct talks. Second, it was wrong for this Administration to suggest the 1967 borders should be the starting point for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. When you consider this suggestion was made on the eve of the Israeli Prime Ministers visit, we see in this American Administration a willingness to isolate a close ally and to do so in a manner that is insulting and naïve. Third, by injecting the issue of 1967 borders in addition to a construction freeze in East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements, the Obama Administration has put Israel in a position of weakness and taken away their flexibility to offer concessions as part of the negotiation process. Indeed, bolstered by the Obama Administrations policies and apologists at the U.N., the Palestinians are exploiting the instability in the Middle East hoping to achieve their objective without concessions or direct negotiations with Israel. The reason is simple: if they perceive they can get what they want from the U.N. without making any concessions why should they negotiate with Israel? While the administration is right to finally agree to fight the Arab resolution at the U.N., it bears repeating that we wouldnt be here today if they had stuck to some basic principles concerning Palestinian statehood * First, Palestinian leaders must publicly affirm Israels right to exist, and to exist as a Jewish state; * Second, President Abbas must persuade all factions including Hamas to renounce acts of terrorism and release kidnapped Israeli Gilad Shalit, and; * Third, Palestinian statehood must be established only through direct negotiations between the Palestinian leadership and the nation of Israel. By not insisting on these principles, the Obama Administration has appeased the Arab Street at the expense of our own national security interests. They have sowed instability that threatens the prospects of peace. Israels security is critical to Americas security. We must not forget it was Israel that took out the nuclear capabilities of Iraq in 1981 and Syria in 2007. In both instances, their actions made the free world safer. Today, the greatest threat to the security of Israel and, by extension, a threat to America, is the Iranian government developing a nuclear arsenal. One thing is clear: we must stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Economic sanctions must be tightened and increased and all options must remain on the table to stop a brutally repressive regime from acquiring a nuclear capability. To date, we have fumbled our greatest opportunity for regime change. As average Iranian citizens were marching on Tehran in the Green Revolution in 2009, America was wasting precious time on a naïve policy of outreach to both the Iranian and Syrian governments. Who knows what the leadership of Iran would look like today if America had done everything in its power to provide diplomatic and moral support to encourage the growing movement of dissidents who sought freedom. Our actions in recent years have destabilized the Middle East. We have been complacent in encouraging revolt against hostile governments in Iran and Syria and we have been slow to recognize
[osint] Obama is Destroying Western Interests in the Middle East, Helping Destabilize the Region, and Putting Millions of Lives in Jeopardy
I accuse President Barack Obama of Destroying Western Interests in the Middle East, Helping Destabilize the Region, and Putting Millions of Lives in Jeopardy Posted By Barry Rubin On September 19, 2011 Think of how outrageous my headline is: Destroying Western Interests in the Middle East, Helping Destabilize the Region, and Putting Millions of Lives in Jeopardy Do you think that's extremist, crazy, can't be true because you're not seeing that stuff in the New York Times? You must be a right-wing Republican, you say? No, just a serious Middle East analyst. The tenth anniversary of September 11, almost three years after Obama's election, is a suitable time to confront this issue honestly and fully. So consider fairly and honestly the list of points below. Egypt: Obama supported a revolution overthrowing a U.S. ally - rather than a smooth transition replacing the dictator and instituting some reform without dropping the entire regime - disregarding State Department advice and not even consulting with Jordan, Israel, or Saudi Arabia! He also unilaterally announced his readiness to see the Muslim Brotherhood in power. His analysts denied that the Brotherhood is a radical, anti-American Islamist organization that supports terrorism. The resulting dangerous crisis, including Egypt becoming a new type of Iran, is now clear to all. Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: By distancing himself from Israel, removing all pressure from the Palestinians, unilaterally proposing a freeze of Israeli construction on settlements, and repeatedly messing up the effort to restart negotiations, Obama made the peace process situation worse. His failure to handle properly the Palestinian UN unilateral independence bid has put U.S. policy in a terrible mess, with an American veto leading to large-scale anti-Americanism and probable violence both by Palestinians against Israel and by Muslims against the United States. Israel: The damage the Obama administration did to Israel was not in bilateral relations or even in the peace process, but by its role in the deterioration of the regional situation to a dangerous extent. As a result, the two most powerful regional powers that had decent relations with Israel - Egypt and Turkey - turned around 180 degrees; Hamas' rule was entrenched in the Gaza Strip; and Hizballah's rule was entrenched in Lebanon http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-admin-ignored-saudi-pleas-to-combat-take over-of-lebanon/ . That's four of Israel's neighbors that became effectively hostile while the Obama administration didn't even notice. As the level of threat rose, U.S. political-diplomatic support for Israel declined. Turkey: As Turkey continued to move toward being a repressive Islamist state allied with revolutionary Islamism, the U.S. government didn't notice. Farcically, it promoted the Turkish model and made Turkey its mediator over Syria's future! Lebanon: As Lebanon fell under Syria-Iran-Hizballah control, the Obama administration did nothing. It failed to support the moderates and so they surrendered. Syria: The administration pursued the ridiculously doomed effort to pull Syria away from Iran and engaged it even as Damascus escalated its support for terrorism, aggression toward Lebanon, killing Americans in Iraq, and then repressing its own people. Gaza: The administration gave Hamas indirect aid, made no serious effort to overthrow a radical, anti-American, genocidal-oriented regime, and pressed Israel to reduce sanctions to a minimum. This ensured the survival and strengthening of a pro-terrorist revolutionary Islamist state on the Mediterranean. Saudi Arabia: Repeated slaps in the face and failure to confront advances by revolutionary Islamists - especially Iran and Syria, as well as abandonment of Mubarak - disgusted this ally. Seeing U.S. weakness, it concluded it has to take care of itself Iran: After wasting a long time in engagement, the administration finally (at the slowest possible speed) did push sanctions. Yet it still has no strategy for opposing Iran's non-nuclear methods of subverting neighbors and expanding its influence. Danger: Obama failed to realize it or to define properly friends and enemies. Leadership: Despite being begged by different allies, the Obama administration failed to demonstrate leadership. Empowering Islamism: In his Cairo speech and thereafter, Obama emphasized the Muslim identity of Middle Easterners thus undermining Arab identity and nationalism. Endangering the lives of American soldiers and civilians: By refusing to allow a proper analysis of Islamism and terrorism. Consider, for example, the Fort Hood attack in which Americans were killed because military officers feared to do their job lest it hurt their promotions. Libya: Obama entered a war without any strategy for what would happen after Gaddafi fell or any knowledge of who he was helping to promote as the new leadership. Rejection of basic diplomatic principles: Supporting friends and
[osint] 1930s Deja Vu All Over Again
Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism Is Finally Pushing Jews to the Right Posted By Abraham H. Miller On September 21, 2011 A Republican win in an historic Democratic congressional district in New York and an art exhibit canceled http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/how-the-left-uses-childrens-art-in-the-war-aga inst-the-jews/ [1], after public outrage, at a childrens museum in Oakland, California, seem to be unrelated events. But the relationship between these events would be apparent to anyone who took note of the claim of Svein Sevje http://www.jinsa.org/jinsa-reports/twisting-terror-so-israel-deserves-it-no rway-doesnt [2], Norwegian ambassador to Israel, that the lives of Norwegian children slaughtered by a crazed fanatic were worth more than the lives of Jewish children slaughtered by Palestinians. Or anyone who observed that, this month, the government of Turkey conspicuously separated Israeli passengers http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2011/09/turkeys-chosen-scapegoat.php?pf=yes [3] arriving at the Istanbul airport, had them strip searched, held them incommunicado for ninety-minutes, and then released them without explanation. For Jews, it is the 1930s all over again. We are living in the early days of the garden of beasts, although this time the appellation is not about one country, but about much of the world. The various campaigns against Israel have long ago crossed the line from legitimate criticisms of a states policies to demonizing the Jewish people. The signs are everywhere, from the rhetoric of the good people at the local peace and justice brigade, to the flagrant anti-Semitism at our colleges and universities. These institutions have decency and sensitivity codes to protect every identity group, but find anti-Semitism the one hate speech protected by the First Amendment. When the Middle East Childrens Alliance (MECA), a Bay Area group known for its virulent hostility toward Israel, sponsored an art show titled A Childs View from Gaza at Oaklands Museum of Childrens Art (MOCHA), the museum agreed to accept the exhibit. I have no doubt that if a group of yahoos decided to have a childrens film festival showcasing films that looked terribly like the racist The Birth of a Nation, it would have taken the museum directors six frames to decide on the inappropriateness of the subject matter, especially for a museum whose mission is to make all children feel safe and comfortable. Yet, initially, the museum had no trouble accepting the exhibit, allegedly the work of Gazas children, 8-11 years-old, that depicted Israeli soldiers committing grotesque acts of violence on innocent Palestinians. The exhibit was a crude propaganda display. It attributed to Israeli soldiers what Palestinian terrorists routinely do: target children. There was Maalot with 22 children dead out of 25, the attack on the nursery at Kibbutz Misgav Am with 2 children dead out of 3, the Dolphinarium bombing with 21 teens dead, and the long inventory of children and young people purposely targeted at discos, fast-food restaurants, and malls. Palestinian terrorists conduct willful campaigns of genocide by deliberately targeting children and places where young people are known to congregate. The Palestinian Authority celebrates these murderers as heroes, names public places after them, and holds them up as role models. The propaganda display at MOCHA turned reality on its head. And much of the art work seemed far and away too advanced for the age group. People who have some expertise in these matters saw the art as the work of much older and more sophisticated hands. Would Jewish children have felt safe and comfortable viewing this one-sided exhibit? Would the Jewish community have been then permitted to launch an exhibit titled The Art of Jewish Victims of Terrorism, depicting the consequences of death and destruction wrought by suicide bombings and rockets? And would that have made Arab children feel safe and comfortable? The exhibit was canceled because of the strong efforts of the Jewish communitys official organizations. Left-leaning to a fault, incredibly cautious about anything remotely looking like censorship, the community groups finally recognized that a line leading straight into the depths of perdition had been crossed. The Jew haters were hijacking a childrens museum for their filth. Those who had far too long tolerated the anti-Semitism of the Berkeley Daily Planet http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-demise-of-the-berkeley-daily-planet/ [4], the hostile environment http://spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=7075 [5] on the Berkeley campus, and the transformation of the local Hillel http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/whither-american-jewry-and-berkeleys-hillel/ [6] into a propaganda mill for the pro-Palestinian campus groups now saw something that even for them had gone too far. It reminded me of a scene in Solzhenitsyns Gulag Archipelago http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/01/home/solz-gulag.html [7].
[osint] Germany's Woeful Security Council Record
09/21/2011 10:42 AM Shrinking Influence Germany's Woeful Security Council Record By Ralf Neukirch Berlin had hoped that its current stint on the United Nations Security Council would ultimately be a springboard to permanent membership. The opposite has proven to be the case. The country's international influence is shrinking and diplomats in New York have lost faith in Germany. Peter Wittig is sitting in the briefing room of the United Nations Security Council, between his counterparts from India and Gabon. The Iranian nuclear program is on the agenda. Wittig is criticizing Tehran for its continuing violation of UN resolutions. The French and American ambassadors are in support of his position, while the Russian and Brazilian ambassadors see things somewhat differently. The back-and-forth once again highlights where the front lines are to be found in the Security Council, the most powerful body in the UN. The exchange is a reflection of which countries usually band together in the Security Council, the most powerful body of the UN. Such was the case, at least, until March 17 of this year. That was the day on which the Security Council passed its Resolution 1973 on Libya, which called for the implementation of a no-fly zone and the use of military force to protect the civilian population. All Western and African members of the council voted in favor of the resolution. http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,783322,00.html Except for one. A Break with German Foreign Policy Wittig, the German UN ambassador, was forced to abstain from the vote, on instructions from Berlin. It was a decision which redrew the Security Council alliances -- Germany suddenly found itself grouped together with Russia, China, India and Brazil. More than that, the vote represented a http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,783043,00.html break with Germany's foreign policy maxim to never oppose its European partners and the United States. It was just one year ago that Germany was elected to serve a two-year stint as a non-permanent member of the council. The choice was seen as Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle's greatest success to date. And it was intended as a first step on the road to a UN reform and a permanent German seat on the council. But with Westerwelle in New York this week to attend another session of the UN General Assembly, Germany's record on the Security Council to date is worse than even the greatest pessimists had expected. The Germans had hoped to portray themselves as a force for good and to exert a positive influence on Western policies. Instead, Berlin must now prove to its partners that it remains reliable. Germany, at the moment, has little leeway at the UN. Furthermore, Berlin's declared goal of becoming a permanent Security Council member has receded far into the distance. Why should the Americans, French or British stand behind a partner who cannot be relied upon in an emergency? Its election last year to the council has harmed more than it has benefited Germany. Small Steps At the Deutsches Haus, located across from the UN headquarters building, Wittig tries to sell Germany's eight months on the Security Council as a success. The ambassador is a calm, competent man. He has an excellent reputation in New York, even among those who believe that the German government's foreign policy has been a failure. But it is Wittig who must take the blame for contradictions in German foreign policy; he cannot act against instructions from Berlin. And there are some successes he can point to. Under the German presidency, the Security Council approved a statement on climate protection and security policy. It wasn't easy, especially given the Russians' prolonged opposition. Wittig also mentions the resolution to protect children in armed conflicts, the result of a German initiative. Small steps to be sure, but important nonetheless. Still, big mistakes are of much greater consequence. A conversation with Wittig's counterparts on the Security Council reveals that the Libyan case still overshadows everything. The incident, after all, revealed a fundamental problem of German foreign policy. The German economy is one of the world's strongest and the country has the largest population in the European Union. It is natural, and perfectly legitimate, for Berlin to want a say in key issues. Strategy of Avoidance But the government cannot then limit its engagement to climate protection and the rights of children. Such issues are not morally complicated. But a country that is trying to win a permanent seat on the Security Council must also be prepared to answer the most important question when necessary: War or peace? Simple answers to that question are rare. Both Westerwelle and Chancellor Angela Merkel underestimated the impact of their strategy of avoidance http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,782757,00.html when it came to Libya. If there was a message behind
[osint] Beheading in Saudi
http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/author/starcmc/ http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/beheading-in-saudi/ Beheading in Saudi http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/author/starcmc/ StarCMC | September 21, 2011 at 10:50 AM | Tags: http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=beheading beheading, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=saudi-arabia Saudi Arabia, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=sharia Sharia | Categories: http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?cat=4115925 Creeping Sharia, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?cat=29069 Sharia | URL: http://wp.me/pbU4v-9CO http://wp.me/pbU4v-9CO This time it's for practicing sorcery. Ah! Sharia law - ain't it grand? From ahramonline.com http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/2/8/21715/World/Region/Saudi-Arab ia-beheads-Sudanese-sorcerer.aspx : A Saudi Arabian ministry statement carried by the state news agency, SPA, stated that Abdul Hamid al-Fakki practiced witchcraft and sorcery, which are illegal under Saudi Arabia's Islamic sharia law. Al-Fakki was beheaded in the western city of Medina on Monday, the interior ministry announced. In October last year, Amnesty International said it had appealed to King Abdullah in a letter to commute Fakki's death sentence. His execution brings to 42 the number of people beheaded in Saudi Arabia this year, according to an AFP tally based on official and human rights group reports. In June, London-based watchdog Amnesty International called on Saudi Arabia to stop applying the death penalty, saying there had been a significant rise in the number of executions in the previous six weeks. It said 15 people were executed in May alone. Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia's strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law. Sharia law is evil. That is all. UPDATE - whoops! Sorry for the incorrect link! Fixed now. (Thanks for the heads up Un:dhimmi http://www.undhimmi.com !) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Saddam: What We Now Know
Re-examining the facts Audio of the article, and comments, at source. Further Note: In the comments there are several requests for documentation. In a short follow-up piece, the writer, Jim Lacey, explained that his article relies on the Duelfer Report as source. That piece is presented here ahead of the main article. There are 48 comments (so far) to that also--I included just one here. In that piece, Mr. Lacey provides a link to a report he and Kevin Woods prepared for the Federal Government: Iraqi Perspectives Report Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents.The URL and material including the links to download the pdf are below the line of ==='s. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/277391/saddam-wmd-s-and-terror-jim-lace y http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/277391/saddam-wmd-s-and-terror-jim-lac ey Saddam, WMD's, and Terror http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/277391/saddam-wmd-s-and-terror-jim-lac ey September 15, 2011 7:28 P.M. By http://www.nationalreview.com/author/206811 Jim Lacey Regarding http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/277115/saddam-what-we-now-know-jim-l acey my most recent column, several commenters are asking for my sources on Saddam's WMD plans and links to terror. All of the WMD information comes from the Duelfer Commission Report particularly the second and third volumes. The report can be found http://www.gpoaccess.gov/duelfer/index.html here. The Left said this document proved there were no WMDs of course, they only read the executive summary. The commission was put together to look into what went wrong with prewar intelligence, and that is what they reported out on. However, in the two volumes no one bothered to read, the commission members detail all of the stuff that was actually present. You have to read almost to the end of volume three to learn about the real bio-warfare labs. As for Saddam's links to terror, http://www.archive.org/details/IraqiPerspectivesReportSaddamAndTerrorismEme rgingInsightsFromCaptured here is a short version of a report I co-wrote. All of the information in volume one of the report comes from captured Iraqi documents. There are four succeeding volumes in which all of the documents used are reproduced in the original Arabic and in translation. [Just one of the 48 comments to this piece. --J.]: Silent Cal : 09/20/11 08:04 I recall watching David Kay testifying on CSPAN many years ago and saying he thought Iraq was more dangerous then previously thought. Then I read the papers the next day and the gist was that there was no WMD, there was nothing going on, etc. The press completely ignored the most interesting parts of the testimony. Hmguess it did not fit the story line. MAIN ARTICLE: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/277115/saddam-what-we-now-know-jim-la cey# http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/277115/saddam-what-we-now-know-jim-l acey SEPTEMBER 14, 2011 4:00 A.M. Saddam: What We Now Know Bin Laden struck first, but Saddam was at least as big a terror threat. http://podcast.outloudopinion.com/nro/nro.xml http://podcast.outloudopinion.com/nro/nro.xml http://podcast.outloudopinion.com/nro/nro.xml Listen to the Audio Version http://media.blubrry.com/outloudopinion/traffic.libsyn.com/nro/20110914Lace y.mp3 EDITOR'S NOTE: Additional sources for the information in this column are available http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/277391/saddam-wmd-s-and-terror-jim-lac ey here. Saddam Hussein was a WMD threat and a terror threat to the United States and its allies. Too many of the post-9/11 critics have forgotten or were never aware of this fact. Even in last week's NRO symposium, writers called the invasion of Iraq an unjust war, an optional war, and finally a result of the flawed intelligence that skewed the perceived threat posed by Saddam Hussein's regime to the United States. There is little doubt that the pre-war intelligence on Iraq was faulty, mostly because of Saddam's continuing attempts to convince Iran that he still maintained a potent WMD capacity despite years of sanctions. Unfortunately, in the years of recriminations following the invasion of Iraq the actual truth was lost, until it became commonplace for even those who supported the invasion to admit that Saddam did not pose a WMD threat. Likewise, as he was not responsible for the 9/11 attacks, many believe he was not a terror threat either. Before the consensus is written in stone, it is worth going over the evidence collected since the removal of the Saddam regime. Leaving aside the fact that he slaughtered more than a million of his own people and was prone to launching unprovoked wars against his neighbors both good reasons for his violent removal what threat did Saddam actually pose? Let's go through just a sliver of the evidence. SADDAM AND WMDS When American tanks
[osint] LAMPEDUSA: Muslim savages are rioting, attacking police and locals, after setting the Immigrant Centre on fire yesterday
http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/author/barenakedislam/ http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/lampedusa-muslim-savages-are -rioting-attacking-police-and-locals-after-setting-the-immigrant-centre-on-f ire-yesterday/ LAMPEDUSA: Muslim savages are rioting, attacking police and locals, after setting the Immigrant Centre on fire yesterday http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/author/barenakedislam/ barenakedislam | September 21, 2011 at 1:48 PM | Categories: http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/?cat=6479022 Islamization of the West | URL: http://wp.me/peHnV-zR8 http://wp.me/peHnV-zR8 LAMPEDUSA: Muslim savages are rioting, attacking police and locals, after setting the Immigrant Centre on fire yesterday Posted: September 21, 2011 | Author: barenakedislam http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/author/barenakedislam/ | Filed under: Islamization of the West http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/category/islamization-of-the-west/ | http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/lampedusa-muslim-savages-are -rioting-attacking-police-and-locals-after-setting-the-immigrant-centre-on-f ire-yesterday/#comments 9 Comments Crazed Muslim barbarians from Tunisia and Libya are wilding in the streets, fighting police, and now they have started attacking and robbing the people of Lampedusa, while threatening to blow up gas stations. So why aren't the police shooting them dead yet? UK TELEGRAPH http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8778844/Lampedusa-fi re-Centre-burned-down-by-Tunisian-refugees.html (H/T Maria) The devastating fire started on Tuesday night when the Tunisian MUSLIM invaders, protesting against their immediate repatriation, allegedly set fire to their bed mattresses. The blaze reduced much of the controversial centre to a smoking ruin. http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/lampedusa-muslim-savages-are -rioting-attacking-police-and-locals-after-setting-the-immigrant-centre-on-f ire-yesterday/migrants-gather-near-a-burning-caravan-on-a-pier-at-the-old-po rt-of-the-italian-island-of-lampedusa-4/ http://barenakedislam.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/07202649-66646a9b20e8dba7f 96d4b812c9c99632.jpg?w=590h=388 On Wednesday violence broke out between riot police and refugees on the island. Three Italian Carabinieri, a policeman and seven Tunisian MUSLIMS have been injured. (Only 7 wounded? Why aren't 7 or more dead?) The fire dealt a heavy blow to Italy's ability to deal with a continuing flood of refugees from North Africa in the wake of the popular revolts in Tunisia and Egypt and the civil war in Libya. http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/lampedusa-muslim-savages-are -rioting-attacking-police-and-locals-after-setting-the-immigrant-centre-on-f ire-yesterday/illegal-immigrants-from-north-africa-arrive-on-the-southern-it alian-island-of-lampedusa-2/ http://barenakedislam.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/llegan-lampedusa-997-inmig rantes-tunecinos-pateras_1_589061.jpg?w=590h=385More than 48,000 Muslim rats have reached the shores of southern Italy since the start of the year. Many of the 1,200 MUSLIM invaders held in the centre fled like rats when three fires set by the invaders out late on Tuesday. As police stationed on the island rounded them up, the fires blazed out of control and destroyed three buildings in the complex. http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/lampedusa-muslim-savages-are -rioting-attacking-police-and-locals-after-setting-the-immigrant-centre-on-f ire-yesterday/lampedusa-blaze_1299280i/ http://barenakedislam.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/lampedusa-blaze_1299280i.j pg?w=590h=380The fires were allegedly lit deliberately by Tunisian MUSLIMS protesting against their imminent return home, having been ruled to be economic migrants rather than bona fide asylum seekers. Bernardino De Rubeis, the outspoken mayor of the island, said he had been warning the government in Rome for days that tensions among the migrants were increasing to breaking point. He said islanders were fed up with having to host so many MUSLIM savages. We're in a war, and the people will react. There are people here who want to go out into the streets armed with clubs. (Forget clubs, take guns) http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/lampedusa-muslim-savages-are -rioting-attacking-police-and-locals-after-setting-the-immigrant-centre-on-f ire-yesterday/photo_1302554551423-1-0/ http://barenakedislam.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/photo_1302554551423-1-0.jp g?w=590h=377 The mayor demanded that Italian navy ships be sent to the island immediately in order to transfer the migrants to camps in Sicily and the mainland. (Transfer? How about sending them back to Tunisia?) We can't understand why police and Carabinieri go in hard against fans in football fans - their own compatriots - while on Lampedusa it's completely different. We need a strong hand on the island too. People are tired of all this, they want to get back to living in peace.
[osint] The media’s love affair with a disastrous president
Sometimes foreign commentators either are off the mark, or have ‘no right’, but every now and then, even a foreign commentator can have useful insight. Rex Murphy is a crusty left oriented TV columnist. Canada.com Network http://www.canada.com/ nationalpost.com http://www.nationalpost.com/ financialpost.com http://www.financialpost.com/ http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/ Today's Paper http://www.nationalpost.com/contact/subscriptions/ Delivery http://www.nationalpost.com/contact/ Contact http://digital.nationalpost.com/epaper/viewer.aspx Digital Paper National Post http://www.nationalpost.com/ http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/category/full-comment/ Full Comment Rex Murphy: The media’s love affair with a disastrous president Description: Larry Downing/Reuters Larry Downing/Reuters Since 2008, much of the Obama coverage has been nothing more than orchestrated sycophancy. · Comments http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/09/17/rex-murphy-the-medias-love-affair-with-a-disastrous-president/#disqus_thread · Email http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/email-form/?email-post=50938 · Twitter http://twitter.com/share?text=Rex+Murphy%3A+The+media%E2%80%99s+love+affair+with+a+disastrous+presidenturl=http%3A%2F%2Ffullcomment.nationalpost.com%2F2011%2F09%2F17%2Frex-murphy-the-medias-love-affair-with-a-disastrous-president%2Frelated=postedtoronto,nationalpostvia=fullcomment · · · Rex Murphy http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/author/rmurphynp/ Sep 17, 2011 – 7:00 AM ET | Last Updated: Sep 19, 2011 4:36 PM ET As the bad economic news continues to emanate from the United States — with a double-dip recession now all but certain — a reckoning is overdue. American journalism will have to look back at the period starting with Barack Obama’s rise, his assumption of the presidency and his conduct in it to the present, and ask itself how it came to cast aside so many of its vital functions. In the main, the establishment American media abandoned its critical faculties during the Obama campaign — and it hasn’t reclaimed them since. Much of the Obama coverage was orchestrated sycophancy. They glided past his pretensions — when did a presidential candidate before “address the world” from the Brandenberg Gate in Berlin? They ignored his arrogance — “You’re likable enough, Hillary.” And they averted their eyes from his every gaffe — such as the admission that he didn’t speak “Austrian.” The media walked right past the decades-long association of Obama with the weird and racist pastor Jeremiah Wright. In the midst of the brief stormlet over the issue, one CNN host — inexplicably — decided that CNN was going to be a “Wright-free zone.” He could have hung out a sign: “No bad news about Obama here.” The media trashed Hillary. They burned Republicans. They ransacked Sarah Palin and her family. But Obama, the cool, the detached, the oracular Obama — he strolled to the presidency. Palin, in particular, stands out as Obama’s opposite in the media’s eyes. As much as they genuflected to the one, they felt the need to turn rottweiler toward the other. If Obama was sacred , classy, intellectual and cosmopolitan, why then Palin must be malevolent, trashy, dumb and pure backwoods-ignorant. Every doubt they hid from themselves about Obama, every potential embarrassment they tucked under the blanket of their superior sensibilities, they furiously over-compensated for by their remorseless hounding of Palin — from utterly trivial e-mails, to blogger Andrew Sullivan’s weird speculations about Palin’s womb, musings that put the Obama “Birther” fantasies into a realm near sanity. (We are now seeing an echo of that — with a new book promoting all sorts of unconfirmed gossip about Palin, including her alleged sexual dalliance with a basketball star.) As a result, the press gave the great American republic an untried, unknown and, it is becoming more and more frighteningly clear, incompetent figure as President. Under Obama, America’s foreign policies are a mixture of confusion and costly impotence. It is increasingly bypassed or derided; the great approach to the Muslim world, symbolized by the Cairo speech, is in tatters. Its debt and deficits are a weight on the entire global economy. And the office of presidency is less and less a symbol of strength. To the degree the press neglected its function as watchdog and turned cupbearer to a Styrofoam demigod, it is a partner in the flaws and failures of what is turning out to be one of the most miserable performances in the modern history of the American presidency. National Post Rex Murphy offers commentary weekly on CBC TV’s The National, and is host of CBC Radio’s Cross Country Checkup. · Posted in: Full Comment http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/category/full-comment/ , U.S. Politics
[osint] Troops Veterans Aren't Paying Their Fair Share? Obama is bald-faced Liar
So, when Obama and Panetta, look the Troops in the eyes, and say We can't break faith with those fighting Our contingency operations, that's called a poker face. When they say they will fight to preserve the DoD Budget, now that they've already cut it by $500 Billion? That's a bald-faced lie. http://tinyurl.com/3zy2e3z Tuesday, September 20, 2011 Troops Veterans Aren't Paying Their Fair Share? http://waronterrornews.typepad.com/.a/6a00e551d9d3fd88330154358fa1ec970c-po pup Obama-BuffettWell, the POTUS has declared that he has a plan to reduce the deficit by $1Trillion to $4 Trillion over the next 10 years, depending on what part of his marketing you're reading. He has said that it's time for all of us to pay our fair share, and pointed to the words of one of his biggest contributors: Warren Buffett. Buffett is an astute investor who was able to put together a few million in campaign donations for Obama (and for Hillary) in 2008, ensuring they backed TARP which netted Buffett a few billion more in net worth. Buffett has campaigned for higher taxes on the rich, for as long as he's been an Obama supporter. To hear the spin, Buffett is paying less in taxes than his secretary, but Buffett doesn't say that being rich, he doesn't need (and likely doesn't take much of) an income. He doesn't say how much he pays his secretary, but evidently, this translates into needing to raise taxes on those that make $250k/year, as opposed to the tens of billions that Buffett has in wealth. At any rate, the reported increase in taxes on the small segment of America would supposedly increase tax revenue by $35 Billion, less than the worth of Warren Buffett, and a small part of the total claimed deficit reduction. At best, it's a token (1% to 3.5% of the claimed savings) and a slogan, to politicians, but a helluva cut in takehome pay for the people that employee others. So, who are these miscreants that aren't paying their fair share? The ones that will pay to balance the budget deficit? Well, Military Retirees are evidently a big part of those not paying their fair share. While the POTUS and his SecDef talk out of both sides of their mouths, the POTUS plans to slash military retirement pay and benefits. Evidently, Twenty years of risking life and limb, of sacrificing comfort, and time with family, is insufficient to earn a full retirement. He wants an independent commission to rubber stamp his idea of cutting up to 44 years of retirement pay($21 Billion). And he wants those that do retire to pay for it themselves, with a 401k plan, instead of a retirement plan. And those health benefits, earned by wounds, injuries, and constantly beating up their bodies? To get those, the military retirees should pay $200 more http://www.stripes.com/obama-deficit-plan-would-re-examine-military-retirem ent-1.18 in the first year (and increasing every year) to get those treated. That's $7 Billion more Obama sees in new taxes, er, savings. He also wants to increase, again, the amount Combat Veterans pay for their prescriptions to get another $20.6 Billion out of our Veterans. It seems our Veterans will pay more than the evil rich people that sign our checks. And the $500 Billion he's already asked to be cut from the Department of Defense? Oh, that's only part of what he thinks should be cut. He wants to cut another $260 Billion cut and claims another $1 Trillion will be saved by retreating from Iraq and Afghanistan. Nevermind that he's already planned to retreat from both, and already claimed those savings from doing so. Nevermind that we're talking about a 10 year plan in a city where only the budget for next year is sometimes approved. He also wants to cut Medicare ($248 Billion) and Medicaid (and TriCare for Troops and Veterans). These are likely as much smoke and mirrors as the rest, but he claims his plan will cut $320 Billion over 10 years, beginning in 2017, when someone else would take the blame, if it ever got passed by the 2017 Congress, and it won't. Oh, yeah, he'll veto it, if he doesn't get to tax the rich, but the 2017 budget won't be passed until at least 2016, so this isn't going to happen. So, evidently, the biggest portion of people that Obama thinks are not paying their fair share are the Troops, Veterans, the Elderly, Farmers($2Billion), and the poor. Those are the people from whom he expects to extract 96+% of his budget savings ($965 Billion to $3.65 Trillion), not those evil rich people like Warren Buffett and the guy that signs your paycheck($35 Billion). And, yeah, a portion of that money he's claiming is based on his speculation that the economy will grow over the next 10 years, increasing the taxes we all pay. Supposedly, the way that will happen is that by increasing our debt, we'll get more tax revenue. We all saw the signs for that in 2009. He told us then that if we didn't spend twice as much as he wants to charge us now, unemployment would be 8+%. When he got his
[osint] Not Satisfied with Assaulting GOP Lawmakers with Beer, Thousands Cheer as Liberal Suggests Urination Instead
Obama's Brown Shirts - this is exactly how Hitler got his start. SS thugs (known as Brown Shirts before Hitler became Chancellor) beat up the opposition, stifled free speech at every turn, stirred up hate against Jews, and much more - and Obama and his Democrats and union thugs (today's SS) are modeled entirely on the Hitler Youth and Brown Shirts. Their methods and policies are virtually identical to those of the National Socialists (Nazi's) in 1930's Germany. I have been unable to find the slightest difference between them - other than today's technology. Jerry - Big Government - http://biggovernment.com - Not Satisfied with Assaulting GOP Lawmakers with Beer, Thousands Cheer as Liberal Suggests Urination Instead Posted By Brett Healy On September 18, 2011 @ 12:27 pm In Big Labor, Congress, Culture, News, Politics, State Politics | 109 Comments http://biggovernment.com/bhealy/2011/09/18/not-satisfied-with-assaulting-go p-lawmakers-with-beer-thousands-cheer-as-liberal-suggests-urination-instead/ print/#comments_controls Will any of the lawmakers, journalists, labor leaders and other activists in att endance at Fighting Bob Fest repudiate the notion, made by a speaker there, that protesters should escalate their harassment from beer to urine? Don't hold your breath. [Madison, Wisc.] Thousands of liberal political activists, gathered here Saturday for an annual conference, cheered and laughed as a speaker recounted the recent assault of a GOP lawmaker. The crowd attending the Fighting Bob Fest also rejoiced at the suggestion that protesters, instead of dumping beer over the heads of Republicans, should urinate on them. This is Wisconsin, this is the place where you had some guy pour a beer on the head of a Republican State Senato r? said Fest speaker Greg Palast as the crowd erupted with cheers. No, no, no, that's all wrong. You can't do that. That's just wrong. I'm from New York. If you're going to pour beer on a Republican, you have to drink it first. The crowd can then be heard breaking out in loud and sustained cheers and laughter. Madison Police on Friday cited Miles Kristan, commonly referred to as 'Pink Dress Guy' with disorderly conduct for an incident that occurred Wednesday evening. According to police reports, Kristan dumped a beer over State Representative Robin Vos (R-Rochester) and two of his colleagues GOP Reps Scott Suder (Abbotsford) and John Nygren (Marinette) at the Inn on the Park hotel bar and restaurant. The incident has brought to a head concerns by conservatives in Madison that law enforcement there have not taken threats to public safety seriously. Many on the Left, however, have openly mocked the incident as humorous and minimal, although most of this has come in the form of facebook and twitter postings and none in such a public fashion as Palast, an author and freelance journalist, brazenly did on Saturday. Read more http://maciverinstitute.com/?p=7601 [1] http://biggovernment.com/bhealy/2011/09/18/not-satisfied-with-assaulting-go p-lawmakers-with-beer-thousands-cheer-as-liberal-suggests-urination-instead/ print/ Description: Description: ht tp://biggovernment.com/wp-content/plugins/cleanprint-lt/BlogPrintButton.png[ 2] _ Article printed from Big Government: http://biggovernment.com URL to article: http://biggovernment.com/bhealy/2011/09/18/not-satisfied-with-assaulting-gop -lawmakers-with-beer-thousands-cheer-as-liberal-suggests-urination-instead/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to:
[osint] International community legitimizes Palestinian terror if it recognizes a Palestinian state
Palestinian Authority: International community legitimizes Palestinian terror if it recognizes a Palestinian state http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157 http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157doc_id=5679 doc_id=5679 Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik The Palestinian Authority Minister of Prisoners' Affairs says that the PA will interpret international recognition of a Palestinian state as international legitimization of Palestinian prisoners' acts of violence for which they are imprisoned. Minister Issa Karake: The recognition of the state means recognition of the legitimacy of the Palestinian struggle that the Palestinian nation fought, in the search for freedom and independence. In addition, it [recognition of a state] indicates that the struggles of the prisoners are legitimized and legal according to UN Resolutions... The PA has claimed for many years that all its terror, including murder of civilians by suicide bombings, is justified by UN resolution 3236 which recognizes the right of the Palestinian people to regain its rights by all means in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. According to this PA justification of terror, all Palestinian prisoners responsible for killing Israeli civilians are turned into role models by the PA http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=448 . This PA ideology makes heroes http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157doc_id=5626 out of terrorists like Ahlam Tamimi http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157doc_id=4813 , serving 16 life sentences for assisting a suicide bomber who killed 7 children and 8 adults; Anas Jaradat, who headed the Islamic Jihad in Jenin and was responsible for 3 car bombings in Israel, causing the death of dozens; and Salim Hajja, serving 16 life sentences for involvement in three suicide bombings, killing more than 51 and wounding hundreds. Palestinian Media Watch http://palwatch.org/ has documented that these terrorists were honored by the PA in the last month (see also PMW report From Terrorist to Role Model http://palwatch.org/STORAGE/special%20reports/PA%20honors%20terrorists%20Final%20Eng.pdf ). Now, PA Minister Karake says that international recognition of a Palestinian state will be interpreted by the PA as international support for the PA position that killing Israelis is a Palestinian right. The following is the statement by Issa Karake, PA Minister of Prisoners' Affairs: [PA Minister of Prisoners' Affairs, Issa] Karake while visiting prisoners' families at Qalandiya refugee camp... explained that the international recognition of the Palestinian State changes all the imprisoned Palestinians into prisoners of a state, prisoners of war held hostage in another state... He noted that the recognition of the state means recognition of the legitimacy of the Palestinian struggle that the Palestinian nation fought, in the search for freedom and independence. In addition, it [recognition of a state] indicates that the struggles (Arabic- Nidalat) of the prisoners are legitimized and legal according to UN Resolutions, international laws and the third and fourth Geneva Conventions. [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 8, 2011] The Palestinian Authority uses the word nidal - literally 'struggle' - as a general term that includes all acts against Israel - including violence against civilians. PA leaders and officials have legitimized Palestinian violence by quoting UN resolution 3236 which recognizes the right of the Palestinian people to regain its rights by all means. The PA interprets all means as including violence against civilians, but has chosen to ignore the continuation of the resolution which states that the use of all means should be in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations... The UN Charter prohibits targeting civilians, even in war. Chapter 1, Article 1, opens by saying that the international disputes should be resolved by peaceful means. The following are some examples: Abbas Zaki, member of the Fatah Central Committee, does not believe that a Palestinian-Israeli agreement will be achieved in the shadow of the extreme right-wing [Israeli] government, but he leaves the door open to a 'return to [UN] Resolution 181 and to all forms of the struggle, including the armed struggle, if the negotiations fail... In addition, [there will be] a return to UN Resolution 3236, which grants the Palestinian people the right to all forms of the struggle, including the armed struggle...' He called for 'a gathering that will bring together the Fatah and Hamas leadership, under Mahmoud Abbas' ... and added: 'We are in favor of anyone who defends the homeland and bears arms in order to defend it, because he supports the idea of Fatah and of the resistance. [Al-Ghad (Jordan), May 22, 2010] PA Representative in Lebanon Abbas Zaki: We have [U.N.] General Assembly Resolution 3236,
[osint] Palestinians Question Basis for Peace Negotiations
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2011/09/20/Abbas-questions-basis-for-neg otiations/UPI-57271316528630/ Abbas questions basis for negotiations Published: Sept. 20, 2011 at 10:23 AM Comments (1) Email Print Listen http://www.upi.com/img/fb_share.png Slideshow 1 of 2 http://www.upi.com/enl-win/3e2fd47635231fa0156e509f1d1c619f/UPI-57271316528 630/ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gives a speech in Ramallah, West Bank Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a speech in the presidential compound in Ramallah, West Bank, September 16, 2011. Abbas said he would ask the UN Security Council next week to accept the Palestinians as full members of the United Nations. UPI/Debbie Hill http://www.upi.com/enl-win/3e2fd47635231fa0156e509f1d1c619f/UPI-57271316528 630/ http://www.upi.com/img/clear.gif Related Stories . Saudis give $200 million to Palestinians http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/09/20/Saudis-give-200-million-t o-Palestinians/UPI-42271316525294/?rel=57271316528630 . Netanyahu urged not to sanction P.A. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/09/19/Netanyahu-urged-not-to-sa nction-PA/UPI-75371316432159/?rel=57271316528630 . Poll: Palestinians say U.N. bid to succeed http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/09/18/Poll-Palestinians-say-UN- bid-to-succeed/UPI-37081316378177/?rel=57271316528630 UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Palestinian President http://www.upi.com/topic/Mahmoud_Abbas/ Mahmoud Abbas said he's not opposed to giving negotiations with Israel another try but questioned the basis for such talks. Palestinian authorities are expected to push for a unilateral statehood initiative at the United Nations this week. Washington promised to veto the measure if it moves before the U.N. Security Council, saying any independent action from the Palestinians undermined ongoing peace efforts with Israel. Abbas, in an interview with London's pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat, said he wasn't adamantly opposed to negotiations. I am not against a return to the negotiating table but on what basis? he asked. The so-called Middle East Quartet of the United States, Russia, European Union and United Nations met Monday night in an attempt to construct a formula to restart peace talks and stave off a Security Council showdown, diplomats said. U.S. Republican lawmakers on a House appropriations committee threatened Palestinian aid should Abbas continue with his statehood initiative at the United Nations. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu offered to meet with Abbas at U.N. headquarters this week and restart negotiations. Netanyahu in August said that Israel would be willing to resume peace talks based on its 1967 prewar borders if the Palestinians abandoned state recognition efforts and recognized Israel as a Jewish state. Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2011/09/20/Abbas-questions-basis-for-ne gotiations/UPI-57271316528630/#ixzz1YVQiifWu http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2011/09/20/Abbas-questions-basis-for-neg otiations/UPI-57271316528630/#ixzz1YVQiifWu [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *
[osint] 6 Male, 1 Female Muslim Held in Terror Plot to Bomb Britain
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ Description: Description: MailOnline - news, sport, celebrity, science and health stories Tuesday, Sep 20 2011 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/weather/index.html 3PM 19°C 6PM 16°C 5-Day Forecast Six men and a woman held as police 'smash terror plot to bomb Britain' * Men detained following raids in Birmingham's Moseley, Sparkbrook, Sparkhill, Ward End and Balsall Heath * Woman, 22, arrested in Saltley on suspicion of failing to disclose information contrary to the Terrorism Act 2000 * One of the addresses searched by police today is registered to Mohammed Irfan - previously jailed for his part in plotting to kidnap a Muslim British soldier and behead him live on the internet By http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=authornamef=Andy+Dolan Andy Dolan and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=authornamef=James+Slack James Slack Last updated at 7:57 AM on 20th September 2011 Police and security officials believe they have smashed a plot by home-grown terrorists to kill hundreds in an Al Qaeda-inspired attack on Britain. One of 14 homes raided by officers yesterday belongs to a convicted terrorist involved in a conspiracy to capture and behead a British soldier. Acting on intelligence from MI5, counter-terrorism police in Birmingham arrested six men and a woman, who were all born in Britain and hold UK passports. Description: Description: Police forensic officers cover a car in Birmingham following the arrests of six men in Birmingham as part of a large intelligence-led counter-terrorism operation Police forensic officers cover a car in Birmingham following the arrests of six men in Birmingham as part of a large intelligence-led counter-terrorism operation Description: Description: Investigation: A car was taken away by the police after an anti-terrorism operation this morning Investigation: A car was taken away by the police after an anti-terrorism operation this morning Description: Description: Sealed off: The road was cordoned off after police swooped in Sealed off: The road was cordoned off after police swooped in They are suspected of being in the latter stages of planning an atrocity, though a precise target had yet to be chosen. Police say they swooped to protect public safety. Whitehall sources say it is the biggest plot to have been disrupted by the security services this year. It comes only three months after officials downgraded the threat to the UK from severe to substantial. Fourteen Birmingham addresses, including one business, were being searched yesterday. They included a terraced property owned by Mohammed Irfan, 34, and Mohammed Rizwan, who preach at a mosque. Forensics officers were also seen yesterday searching a neighbouring home in the citys deprived Ward End district. Description: Description: Questions: Police speak to a taxi driver outside a home close to where the terror arrests took place Questions: Police speak to a taxi driver outside a home close to where the terror arrests took place Irfan was jailed for four years in February 2008 after admitting being part of plot to behead a Muslim soldier as warning to other Muslims about joining the British Army. He was released on licence in October 2009. Those under arrest were said by neighbours to include a nursery nurse and two brothers. One of the addresses was an imposing five-bedroom detached home occupied by a taxi driver and his five sons. A neighbour said two of the sons had been seen firing an air rifle at a target in the garden on Sunday. The arrests were carried out across the largely Asian inner-city neighbourhoods of Alum Rock, Sparkbrook, Ward End and Moseley, a suburb popular with students and young professionals. Description: Description: Map Although the terror suspects were home-grown, sources said the plot had an international dimension. West Midlands Police said six men aged between 25 and 32 were arrested overnight on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism in the UK following a joint investigation by both police and MI5. A 22-year-old-woman, named by neighbours as nursery nurse Salma Kabal, from Alum Rock, was said to have been arrested at 7am on suspicion of failing to disclose information contrary to the Terrorism Act 2000. Neighbours in the terraced street yesterday said Kabal comes from a moderate Pakistani family and is the eldest of five children. Her mother is said to work as a school dinner lady, while her father is a former council worker. She married two years ago but was said to have divorced her husband six months ago. One neighbour said: He moved in with her and wore a long Islamic beard. He didnt seem to work, but was more extremist than his wife. I understand they split up because he wanted to take her to live in a madrassa in Karachi in Pakistan. The husband was believed to be Ashiq Ali, who was arrested with his brother Bahader, 28,
[osint] Obama's Phony Debt Plan
Obama's phony debt plan Rosy growth projections contrast with grim reality 3 Comments and 5 Reactions http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/19/obamas-phony-debt-plan/#dis qus_thread |Share http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/19/obamas-phony-debt-plan/prin t/ Tweet http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/19/obamas-phony-debt-plan/prin t/ |Email http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep%0d%0a%20/19/obamas-phony-debt- plan/print/ |Print http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/19/obamas-phony-debt-plan/prin t/ | By http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/the-washington-times/ THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times Monday, September 19, 2011 Without any trace of irony, the White House's new 10-year deficit-reduction plan is titled Living Within Our Means and Investing in the Future. It achieves neither of these objectives, but you would never know that by looking at the deceptively rosy future it promises. President Obama's agenda continues the conceit of long-term Washington budget projections that bear no relation to reality. It overstates the administration's ability to predict and influence events. The use of smoke and mirrors is a necessary political trick because highlighting massive purported savings, particularly in the out years, enables Mr. Obama to claim credit for trillions in deficit reduction that are supposed to appear long after he is off th e political stage. He reckons to cut deficits by $3 trillion in 10 years - but so long as we're pulling numbers out of a hat, why not $6 trillion in 20 years or $30 trillion in 100 years? Ten-year economic scenarios are the height of egotism; even Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was content with overseeing five-year plans. The base-line economic assumptions in Mr. Obama's plan are as fantastic as any that have emerged from this White House. As with past projections, unemployment levels are too low, growth projections are too high, and deficit numbers are astronomically more optimistic than realistic. The fiscal 2010 budget projected the deficit would be $581 billion in 2012. The fiscal 2012 budget projected a federal deficit of almost double that. The proposal introduced Monday bumps that figure up to more than $1.3 trillion. The a ctual deficit will be even higher. The projections are always off because the Obama team clings to highly unrealistic economic-growth assumptions. The latest deficit proposal says that during the previous six quarters, real gross domestic product (GDP) had grown at an average rate of 3 percent, implying that this is a robust trend that is likely to continue. Mr. Obama's first budget projected that this year's economic growth would be more than 5 percent, but second-quarter GDP growth in 2011 was only 1 percent, and growth almost ground to a halt in the first quarter at 0.4 percent. Rather than a push for greater spending, these facts should prompt renewed soberness and caution for economic crystal-ball gazers at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The assumptions in Mr. Obama's plan double down on already-bankrupt hopes. For Mr. Obama's deficit numbers to make sense (using the plan as applied to the Office of Management and Budget midsession review base line) the economy is expected to grow at a rate of almost 5 percent in 2012, almost 8 percent in 2014 and 8.5 percent in 2016. If Mr. Obama could deliver that kind of growth, he wouldn't now be trying to explain away 9 percent unemployment and approval ratings in the low 40s. These baloney growth assumptions illustrate why politicians love to talk about the wonderful, magical, faraway out years. Too bad we live in the troubling times delivered by the fierce urgency of now. C Copyright 2011 The Washington Times, LLC [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for
[osint] Turkey to freeze EU ties if Cyprus gets EU presidency
This would be a GOOD thing. B Turkey to freeze EU ties if Cyprus gets EU presidency http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4123679,00.htm Comments strongest yet by Ankara over its opposition to Cyprus presidency and could mark start of a new low point in ties between European Union and Turkey Reuters Published: 09.18.11, 12:46 / http://www.ynetnews.com/home/0,7340,L-3082,00.html Israel News http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4123679,00.html http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4123679,00.html EU-candidate Turkey will freeze relations with the European Union if Cyprus is given the EU presidency in 2012, Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay was quoted as saying by state-run news agency Anatolian late on Saturday. The comments were the strongest yet by Ankara over its opposition to the Cyprus presidency and could mark the s tart of a new low point in ties between the European Union and Turkey which began accession talks to the bloc in 2005. Turkish PM Erdogan during Cairo address (Photo: EPA) The comments also come at a time of heightened tension in the eastern Mediterranean where Turkey is locked in a row with Cyprus over potential offshore gas deposits. Turkey's relations with one-time ally Israel are also at a low. If the peace negotiations there (Cyprus) are not conclusive, and the EU gives its rotating presidency to southern Cyprus, the real crisis will be between Turkey and the EU, Anatolian quoted Atalay as telling Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio and TV at the end of a trip to northern Cyprus. Because we will then freeze our relations with the EU. We have made this announcement, as a government we have made this decision. Our relations with the EU will come to a sudden halt. The internationally-recognized Greek Cypriot government is due to take on the six-month rotating EU presidency in July 2012. Cyprus has been divided since a Turkish invasion in 1974 triggered by a brief Greek-inspired coup. UN-sponsored peace talks between Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots have stumbled since they were relaunched in 2008. In July, Turkey's European Union minister said freezing ties with the Greek Cypriot EU presidency was an option but Atalay's comments were the first time Ankara has said it would definitely halt relations. Greek Cypriots represent the island internationally and in the European Union, while Turkey is the only country to recognise the Turkish Cypriot state. Greek Cypriots say Turkey cannot join the bloc until the Cyprus conflict is resolved. The rotating presidency has lost some importance since the EU's Lisbon treaty, which established a permanent head of the European Council that groups national governments, and a new foreign and security policy chief. But a determined country can still shape the agenda. Of the 35 chapters -- policy areas of EU law -- Turkey has completed one, and 18 have been frozen because of opposition by EU member states including Cyprus and France. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Iranian Ambassador: UN Vote a Step Towards Wiping Out Israel
http://www.investigativeproject.org/3188/iranian-ambassador-un-vote-a-step- towards-wiping http://www.investigativeproject.org/3188/iranian-ambassador-un-vote-a-step-t owards-wiping Iranian Ambassador: UN Vote a Step Towards Wiping Out Israel by IPT News . Sep 19, 2011 at 4:31 pm http://www.investigativeproject.org/3188/iranian-ambassador-un-vote-a-step-t owards-wiping Western diplomatic efforts aimed at heading off a United Nations resolution on Palestinian statehood appear to be making little or no progress. The United States and other allies are trying to find a way to push Palestinians back into direct peace talks with Israel, but those efforts have been rejected. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Video/Article.aspx?id=238567 complained that all hell has broken out against us over the UN effort, but that there was http://online.wsj.com/article/AP6de8fd8a25b542e1a376d188ae644a0b.html no turning back from the present course. That course, Iran's ambassador to Egypt said in a weekend interview, was merely one stage in a broader effort. The push for full membership as a UN member state is a step towards wiping out Israel, said Ambassador Mojtaba Amani http://www.alwatanalarabi.com/arabi/Sub_Details.asp?Sub_id=8436Section_ID= 1 in an interview with Al-Watan al-Arabi. But the Palestinians must that follow a correct example and complete all the measures to prevent the Zionist Entity from depriving them their rights. Abbas reportedly http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/abbas-rejects-netanyahu-compr omises-ahead-of-palestinian-statehood-bid-1.385226 rejected offers of concessions from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, including compromises on language describing the borders of a future state and describing Israel as a home for the Jewish people. From now until I give the speech, we have only one choice: going to the Security Council. Afterwards, we will sit and decide, http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1854086/Wo rld.News/Abbas.presses.Palestinian.U.N..bid.despite.warnings he said. The United States has promised to veto any Palestinian request for full inclusion as a member state before the council. But the PA likely would secure an upgrade of its current status as an observer if it turned to the full UN General Assembly. Western diplomats say that will lead only to disappointment for Palestinians and not get them any closer to actual statehood. And there are risks for the Palestinians if they refuse to alter their course. If Congress follows through on threats to cut off American aid to the Palestinian Authority, the risk of PA collapse is very real, PA central bank chief Jihad al-Wazir told Reuters. Read more at: http://www.investigativeproject.org/3188/iranian-ambassador-un-vote-a-step- towards-wiping http://www.investigativeproject.org/3188/iranian-ambassador-un-vote-a-step-t owards-wiping [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] CAN MUSLIMS CAN NOT BE Good American/Good Canadians?
Subject: CAN MUSLIMS CAN NOT BE Good American/Good Canadians? This is very interesting and we all need to read it from start to finish. And send it on to everyone. Maybe this is why our American Muslims are so quiet and not speaking out about any atrocities. Can a good Muslim be a good American or Canadian? This question was forwarded to a friend who worked in Saudi Arabia for 20 years. The following is his reply: Theologically - no. .. . . Because his allegiance is to Allah, The moon god of Arabia .. Religiously - no.. . .. Because no other religion is accepted by His Allah except Islam ... (Quran, 2:256) (Koran) Scripturally - no. .. .. Because his allegiance is to the five Pillars of Islam and the Quran. Geographically - no .. Because his allegiance is to Mecca, to which he turns in prayer five times a day.. Socially - no. . . Because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make friends with Christians or Jews ... Politically - no... Because he must submit to the mullahs (spiritual leaders), who teach annihilation of Israel and destruction of America, the great Satan. Domestically - no. .. . Because he is instructed to marry four Women and beat and scourge his wife when she disobeys him (Quran 4:34 ) Intellectually - no... Because he cannot accept the American Constitution since it is based on Biblical principles and he believes the Bible to be corrupt. Philosophically - no. . . Because Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran does not allow freedom of religion and expression. Democracy and Islam cannot co-exist. Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic. Spiritually - no... Because when we declare 'one nation under God,' The Christian's God is loving and kind, while Allah is NEVER referred to as Heavenly father, nor is he ever called love in the Quran's 99 excellent names. Therefore, after much study and deliberationwe should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. They obviously cannot be both 'good' Muslims and good Americans/Canadians. Call it what you wish it's still the truth. You had better believe it. The more who understand this, the better it will be for our country and our future. The religious war is bigger than we know or understand. .. Footnote: The Muslims have said they will destroy us from within. SO FREEDOM IS NOT FREE. THE Armed Forces WANT THIS TO ROLL ALL OVER THE U.S. CANADA. Please don't delete this until you send it on. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Obama is Destroying Western Interests in the Middle East, Helping Destabilize the Region, and Putting Millions of Lives in Jeopardy
http://jeffdunetz.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9a443c8dc3ed9a1571202cd e1id=91c61ac24fe=e1333e4251 Obama is Destroying Western Interests in the Middle East, Helping Destabilize the Region, and Putting Millions of Lives in Jeopardy Sep 19, 2011 08:51 pm By Barry Rubin Think of how outrageous my headline is: Destroying Western Interests in the Middle East, Helping Destabilize the Region, and Putting Millions of Lives in Jeopardy Do you think that's extremist, crazy, can't be true because you're not seeing that stuff in the New York Times? You must be a right-wing Republican, you say? No, just a serious Middle East analyst. The tenth anniversary of September 11, almost three years after Obama's election, is a suitable time to confront this issue honestly and fully. So consider fairly and honestly the list of points below. Egypt: Obama supported a revolution overthrowing a U.S. ally - rather than a smooth transition replacing the dictator and instituting some reform without dropping the entire regime - disregarding State Department advice and not even consulting with Jordan, Israel, or Saudi Arabia! He also unilaterally announced his readiness to see the Muslim Brotherhood in power. His analysts denied that the Brotherhood is a radical, anti-American Islamist organization that supports terrorism. The resulting dangerous crisis, including Egypt becoming a new type of Iran, is now clear to all. Israel-Palestinian Peace Process: By distancing himself from Israel, removing all pressure from the Palestinians, unilaterally proposing a freeze of Israeli construction on settlements, and repeatedly messing up the effort to restart negotiations, Obama made the peace process situation worse. His failure to handle properly the Palestinian UN unilateral independence bid has put U.S. policy in a terrible mess, with an American veto leading to large-scale anti-Americanism and probable violence both by Palestinians against Israel and by Muslims against the United States. Israel: The damage the Obama Administration did to Israel was not in bilateral relations or even in the peace process but by its role in the deterioration of the regional situation to a dangerous extent. As a result, the two most powerful regional powers that had decent relations with Israel - Egypt and Turkey - turned around 180 degrees; Hamas rule was entrenched in the Gaza Strip; Hizballah's rule in Lebanon. That's four of Israel's neighbors that became effectively hostile while the Obama Administration didn't even notice. As the level of threat rose, U.S. political-diplomatic support for Israel declined. Turkey: As Turkey continued to move toward being a repressive Islamist state allied with revolutionary Islamism, the U.S. government didn't notice. Farcically, it promoted the Turkish model and made Turkey its mediator over Syria's future! Lebanon: As Lebanon fell under Syria-Iran-Hizballah control, the Obama Administration did nothing. It failed to support the moderates and so they surrendered. Syria: The Administration pursued the factually ridiculous effort to pull Syria away from Iran and engaged it even as Damascus escalated its support for terrorism, aggression toward Lebanon, killing Americans in Iraq, and then repressing its own people. Gaza: The Administration gave Hamas indirect aid, made no serious effort to overthrow a radical, anti-American, genocidal-oriented regime, and pressed Israel to reduce sanctions to a minimum. This ensured the survival and strengthening of a pro-terrorist revolutionary Islamist state on the Mediterranean. Saudi Arabia: Repeated slaps in the face and failure to confront advances by revolutionary Islamists - especially Iran and Syria, as well as abandonment of Mubarak - disgusted this ally. Seeing U.S. weakness, it concluded it has to take care of itself Iran: After wasting a long time in engagement, the administration finally (at the slowest possible speed) did push sanctions. Yet it still has no strategy for opposing Iran's non-nuclear methods of subverting neighbors and expanding its influence. Danger: Obama failed to realize it or to define properly friends and enemies. Leadership: Despite being begged by different allies, the Obama Administration failed to demonstrate leadership. Empowering Islamism: In his Cairo speech and thereafter, Obama emphasized the Muslim identity of Middle Easterners thus undermining Arab identity and nationalism. Endangering the lives of American soldiers and civilians: By refusing to allow a proper analysis of Islamism and terrorism. Consider, for example, the Fort Hood attack in which Americans were killed because military officers feared to do their job lest it hurt their promotions. Libya: Obama entered a war without any strategy for what would happen after Qadhafi fell or any knowledge of who he was helping to promote as the new leadership. Rejection of basic diplomatic principles: Supporting friends and punishing enemies;
[osint] Why gold is so high and Obama so low
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Analysis/Outside-View/2011/09/20/Outside-View-Wh y-gold-is-so-high-and-Obama-so-low/UPI-41751316513880/ Why gold is so high and Obama so low Published: Sept. 20, 2011 at 6:18 AM By PETER MORICI COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Since U.S. President Barack Obama took office, the price of gold has more than doubled to about $1,800 an ounce and public approval of his handling of the economy has more than halved. These are much connected events. During the 1980s and 1990s, thanks to new technologies and market deregulation by Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, the U.S. economy enjoyed a renaissance -- falling inflation, stable growth, low unemployment, and decent returns on stocks and bonds. Sound as a dollar took new meaning as central banks around the world sold off gold holdings and increasingly backed their currencies with greenbacks. The dominance of the dollar, in part, inspired Europeans to create a rival currency -- the euro. Holding gold makes less sense when the U.S. economy is doing well and confidence in the rule of law ensures that investors will get solid returns on portfolio investments. After all, gold is costly to hold and it pays no dividends or interest. In 2000, the U.S. federal budget surplus was $236 billion, the Standard and Poor's 500 index hit its inflation-adjusted peak at 1,520 and gold sold for $280 an ounce. Since, King Dollar has been shattered by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Thanks to big deficits, the world is awash in dollars and Treasury securities, which function much the same as cash in international finance and commerce. The U.S. economy -- overwhelmed by subsidized imports from China, bleeding to pay for expensive foreign oil and hamstrung by intrusive and often counterproductive new government regulations -- can't grow. By 2007, the year before the financial crisis and Democrats took control of Congress, George W. Bush's free spending on agricultural subsidies, military adventures, prescription coverage for seniors and tax cuts turned Clinton's surplus into a $161 billion deficit. GALLERY: President Obama lays out new tax plan http://www.upi.com/News_Photos/News/President-Obama-lays-out-new-tax-plan/5 671/?sg Enter Nancy Pelosi and then Obama and government spending exploded from less than 20 percent of gross domestic product to nearly 26 percent. Increases in the regulatory bureaucracy and government pay, new Medicaid and Medicare entitlements, and crony spending on fraudulent solar energy schemes, bailouts for Chrysler and GM and similar follies push up federal spending by $1.1 trillion in four years. Inflation would have required only $200 billion. Meanwhile, after nearly two years of economic recovery, real GDP is stuck at 2007 levels, family incomes are falling and the ranks of the unemployed and poor swell every month. The president doesn't grasp the magnitude of the structural problems holding down real growth. He refuses to develop domestic oil and natural gas and genuinely confront Chinese mercantilism. He refuses to address business concerns about over-regulation and a generally hostile environment to private enterprise. In the name of lowering costs, ObamaCare mandates the scope of coverage businesses must offer employees but insurance premiums, drug prices and co-pays are rising at an alarming pace. Obama simply ignores this failure. In the Chrysler bankruptcy, the administration managed to pressure a federal judge to subvert 100 years of bankruptcy law to award company assets, which should have been distributed to creditors, to the UAW and an Italian automaker. In yet another payment to organized labor for campaign support, the National Labor Relations Board -- stuffed with recess appointments -- sued Boeing for opening a factory in South Carolina. Now, the president will decide which states are permitted new manufacturing jobs. He can't persuade Congress to put a limit on carbon dioxide emissions so he proposes to curb those by administrative fiat. He punishes the entire oil industry for the sins of one rogue company. Overreach is so intrusive that it borders on expropriation. U.S. companies are investing in China for good reason. Beijing likes capitalism and aspires to global leadership, things Obama appears to distain. And for all their complaints about intellectual property enforcement in China, U.S. investors may enjoy greater security under the law in the Middle Kingdom than in the Middle West. Over the next several years, GDP growth will likely be no more than 2 percent, perhaps less, and given the paltry targets set for the congressional supercommittee on budget deficits, the federal spending gap will likely exceed $1 trillion for many more years and Social Security likely will be broke within two decades. All that money and U.S. bonds, which function much like money, will eventually drive up inflation. With bonds paying little interest
[osint] Short but Sweet
Dana Perrino ( Fox News), during an interview with a well travelled Navy SEAL, asked him if he had to learn the languages of the countries to which he'd travelled. Without hesitation, the SEAL replied: No ma'am, we don't go there to talk. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Hitler Campaigned on Peace and Equality too
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/09/hitler-campaigned-on -peace-and-equality-too.html September 16, 2011 Hitler Campaigned on Peace and Equality too It is important to point out that historical monsters ran on peace, social justice, and equality in order to deceive the public and advance their unspeakably evil agendas. And useful idiots (like, in this case, Hindenburg) make it possible for evil to ascend. In any compromise between good and evil, evil profits. Just remember that. THE MARSHAL AND THE CORPORAL / FIGHT WITH US FOR PEACE AND EQUALITY http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef014e8b97dd43970d-pi Postaxis-dermarschall DER MARSCHAL UND DER GEFREITE Year: n. d. (1933) Artist: UNKNOWN Comments: THE MARSHAL AND THE CORPORAL / FIGHT WITH US FOR PEACE AND EQUALITY. The 85 year old Hindenburg, ill and becoming senile, was one year away from death when this poster appeared. Hitler had just been appointed Chancellor and was soon to declare himself Head of State and Head of Government with Hindenburg's death in August of 1934. The poster has been museum backed with acid free Mulberry paper. Condition: A Paper backed http://fineoldposters.com/condition.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] The U.S. Is Unable To Account For 36k Pounds Of Weapons Grade Uranium And Plutonium
Sent to China, and various Muslim countries.so-called Allies. B http://tinyurl.com/3umg3gy http://tinyurl.com/3umg3gy The U.S. Is Unable To Account For 36k Pounds Of Weapons Grade Uranium And Plutonium Robert Johnson|September 15, 2011| 1,146|12 http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-09-15/politics/30158991_1_nrc-glob al-threat-reduction-initiative-grade-uranium-and-plutonium#comments * http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/4e721a09eab8eaad381b/plutonium .jpg Handling plutonium Handling plutonium (DOE) Under special nuclear cooperation agreements, the United States sent 38,580 pounds of enriched uranium and plutonium to more than two-dozen foreign agencies and is unable to account for 36,000 pounds of the material. The Government Accountability Office report http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11920.pdf says these 27 cooperation agreements, set up to facilitate cross border research, have no accountability and the U.S. has no way to enforce control. Because there is no reporting process in place, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has been visiting nuclear storage sites overseas when permitted, but has not regularly visited countries with the greatest risk of proliferation. From the visits conducted through 1994 to 2010 U.S. teams learned countries met international security guidelines only 50 percent of the time. Trying to pin down the missing 36,000 pounds of material the NRC and the Department of Energy (DOE) have made inventory agreements with five U.S. partners, but the other 22 have refused. The DOE has tried to bring back much of the material to the states, but aside from failing to definitively find it, the agency is limited by its own Global Threat Reduction Initiative which won't allow it. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11920.pdf Check out the full report here Read more: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-09-15/politics/30158991_1_nrc-glob al-threat-reduction-initiative-grade-uranium-and-plutonium#ixzz1Y5eodBDe http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-09-15/politics/30158991_1_nrc-globa l-threat-reduction-initiative-grade-uranium-and-plutonium#ixzz1Y5eodBDe [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Obama's Phony Jobs Bill Makes ACORN Pigs Eligible for $15 billion Taxpayer Money
Obama's 'Jobs Bill' Makes ACORN Eligible for $15 Billion in Taxpayer Money Posted By Matthew Vadum On September 15, 2011 ACORN and other radical left-wing groups would be eligible for up to $15 billion in federal funding if President Obama's new economic stimulus package becomes law. Now that public polling shows Americans are realizing that economic stimulus programs don't work, the Obama administration is calling the latest round of futile stimulus a jobs bill. In a sense it really is a jobs bill: a jobs bill for Saul Alinsky-inspired community organizers. The draft legislation http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/09/12/president-obama-sends-american-jo bs-act-congress [1], which had not yet been introduced in Congress at press time, makes ACORN, Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA), and a phalanx of leftist groups that regularly feed at the public trough eligible for funding. http://pajamasmedia.com/files/2011/09/pigs_feeding.jpg http://pajamasmedia.com/files/2011/09/pigs_feeding.jpg[2] Section 261 of the bill provides $15 billion for Project Rebuild. Grants would be given to qualified nonprofit organizations, businesses or consortia of eligible entities for the redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed-upon properties and for the stabilization of affected neighborhoods. Radical groups like ACORN won't get the whole $15 billion, though, because they will have to compete with state and local governments for the money. ACORN would have to get creative to extract grant money from the $5 billion allotted in the legislative package for two other competitive grant programs covered in sections 214 and 215. At first glance ACORN wouldn't seem to be eligible for funding under the Community Oriented Policing Stabilization Fund and First Responder Stabilization Fund, but oddly enough the group has managed over the years to receive funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, so anything's possible. But there is every reason to believe ACORN, which has long been in the real estate development business, will get a chunk of the $15 billion. President Obama, who used to work for ACORN, wants to give his allies taxpayer dollars regardless of whether it is lawful to do so. In March of this year, Obama's Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) gave a $79,819 grant to the Miami branch of the massive conglomerate known as ACORN Housing Corp. (AHC). AHC filed papers in 2010 legally changing its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America (AHCOA). The nonprofit corporation owed $162,813 in back taxes to the IRS, states, and cities as of this past July. Despite the new name, AHCOA is the same old corrupt organization. It even uses AHC's federal Employer Identification Number (72-1048321). AHCOA operates out of the same office address (209 W. Jackson Blvd., 3rd Floor, Chicago, IL 60606) and uses the same telephone number (312-939-1611). AHCOA is run by the same people who ran the ACORN network. Michael Shea, AHC's longtime executive director, remains in the same post at AHCOA. AHCOA president Alton Bennett and board member Dorothy Amadi were involved with AHC and are longtime ACORN activists. (There are more examples of overlap between AHC and AHCOA, but I'll spare you them for now.) http://pajamasmedia.com/files/2011/09/t1000_liquid_terminator2.jpg http://pajamasmedia.com/files/2011/09/t1000_liquid_terminator2.jpg[3] Like the T-1000 in Terminator 2 ACORN can be slowed down but it will just continue to regroup under different names, and operate out of the same offices. The $79,819 grant to the former ACORN Housing comes out of HUD's Education and Outreach Initiative (EOI) program, a political indoctrination program that gives nonprofit groups money to rail against lenders and the supposed unfairness of the capitalist system. The circumstances of the grant are particularly striking. HUD was so eager to start funding ACORN again that it apparently http://pajamasmedia.com/files/2011/09/subversion-inc-how-obamas-acorn-red-sh irts-are-still-terrorizing-and-ripping-off-american-taxpayers.jpg broke the law, taking the cash out of fiscal 2010 appropriations. This is a problem because Congress banned federal funding of ACORN through the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2010. But two months earlier HUD cited the congressional ban when it withheld a $461,086 grant to AHCOA. Something happened between January and March. In March HUD relied on a government lawyer's dubious legal opinion from 2010 that ACORN Housing was no longer part of the ACORN network - and the new $79,819 grant went through. And now there are dozens of new ACORN offshoot groups ready to devour taxpayers' money, as I write in my new book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama http://tinyurl.com/vadumbook 's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers [4]. Many of the new ACORN groups - with names like New York Communities for Change and Alliance of
[osint] Mounting White House woes
No news here.O's incompetence was known before he was elected. B LAMBRO: Mounting White House woes Bad news in bunches casts new doubts on Obama agenda 4 Comments and 3 Reactions http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/15/mounting-white-house-woes/# disqus_thread |Share http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/15/mounting-white-house-woes/p rint/ Tweet http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/15/mounting-white-house-woes/p rint/ |Email http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011%0d%0a%20/sep/15/mounting-white-hou se-woes/print/ |Print http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/15/mounting-white-house-woes/p rint/ | By http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/donald-lambro_/ Donald Lambro - The Washington Times Thursday, September 15, 2 011 Description: Description: Illustration: White House woesIllustration: White House woes Bottom of Form Barack Obama's troubled presidency was hit hard again this week on several fronts that shook the White House and raised fears in his party of deeper losses in Congress next year. Republicans won a special election for a long-held Democratic House seat in New York that the GOP turned into a referendum on Mr. Obama's failed economic policies. Internal administration emails revealed the White House pushed budget officials to rush a review of a nearly half-billion federal loan to a solar manufacturer championed by Mr. Obama that ended up going bankrupt. A new report says poverty in America surged in the past year to its highest level since 1993. And, especially troubling, the 2011 high school scores for graduating seniors have fallen to their lowest point in four decades. Just a few days after Mr. Obama unveiled yet another jobs stimulus plan before a joint session of Congress, the Democrats' embarrassing failure to keep a House seat they' ve held since 1920 was an early warning shot that the GOP could expand its hold on the House and win control of the Senate in 2012. The pivotal issue that dominated the special election won by Bob Turner, a 70-year-old retired cable television executive making his first try for elective office: an economy that was teetering on the edge of recession and creating few if any net new jobs. Mr. Turner called on voters to send Washington a message, turning the election into a referendum on Mr. Obama's handling of the economy. New York's 9th Congressional District, which includes parts of Queens and Brooklyn, is also home to a large number of Orthodox Jews, many of whom oppose Mr. Obama's plan for Palestinian statehood drawn along Israel's 1967 borders. That, too, raised questions about whether many of his party's Jewish supporters would turn against Democrats next year. Campaign strategist Dick Morris, a former adviser to President Clinton, said the GOP victory sends a pointed warning to House Democrats who were formerly comfortable in their safe Democratic districts: No Democrat is safe. Republicans crushed the Democrats in another special House election Tuesday in northern Nevada that focused largely on the Obama economy in a state that has a 12.9 percent unemployment. The GOP's ad in that race also said, Send Washington a message, not a rubber stamp. Then came the Washington Post's story that the White House had tried to rush federal reviewers for a decision on a $535 million guaranteed federal loan to build a solar panel factory for the Solyndra company, despite warnings that this firm had financial problems. Repeated emails from the White House to reviewers at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) pressured them to speed up and clear the loan so Vice President Joseph R. Biden could announce its approval by the government at a September 2009 groundbreaking. One email to an OMB official noted the time pressure we are under to sign off on Solyndra. But the loan was shoved through, despite doubts about the company, and the manufacturing facility was built. Mr. Obama spoke at the factory, calling it a great example of the kind of businesses and jobs his policies would create. But Solyndra declared bankruptcy just two weeks ago. The factory is shuttered and fenced and Congress is in the midst of investigative hearings into what has all the earmarks of a major abuse of power for political purposes. Earlier this year, Solyndra executives told administration officials they were in financial stress and would go out of business if it did not receive an additional loan of $67 million. OMB reviewers warned that it would be better to let the company liquidate rather than sink more money into it, according to emails. Green technology has been a centerpiece of Mr. Obama's jobs plan, even though many economists have questioned whether many, if not most, of these new technologies are economically viable industries without their heavy federal subsidies. Throughout the nearly three years of his presidency, Mr. Obama has made often outlandish claims that these clean-technology loan programs would produce thousands,
[osint] Turkish President tells Europe it must put up with flood of Muslim invaders and freeloaders
http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/author/barenakedislam/ http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/turkish-president-tells-euro pe-it-must-put-up-with-flood-of-muslim-invaders-and-freeloaders/ Turkish President tells Europe it must put up with flood of Muslim invaders and freeloaders http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/author/barenakedislam/ barenakedislam | September 15, 2011 at 7:29 PM | Categories: http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/?cat=6479022 Islamization of the West | URL: http://wp.me/peHnV-zE6 http://wp.me/peHnV-zE6 Turkish President Abdullah Gul, who addressed the Yaroslavl Global Policy Forum scolds Europe for its growing racism and 'Islamophobia,' and has called for the adoption of a new diplomatic language to fight this disturbing trend. (How dare this little greasy raghead tell Europe what to do?) RT http://rt.com/politics/increasing-islamophobia-europe-gul-087/http:/www.mar ines.mil/community/pages/MedalofHonorSgtDakotaMeyer-Citation.aspx We are seriously concerned about racism and Islamophobia in Europe, he said, adding that more resolute steps should be taken to fight this. (Ok, we'll give you back all the Muslim scum who are causing it) Europe will have to put up with the arrival of more immigrants and accept diversity, President Gul stressed. (Why don't you take them? If they get to be too much of a problem you can always commit another genocide as you did to the Armenians) http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/turkish-president-tells-euro pe-it-must-put-up-with-flood-of-muslim-invaders-and-freeloaders/malta-illega l-immigrants-2/ http://barenakedislam.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/malta-illegal-immigrants.p ng?w=590h=249I am sorry to say that whenever we have expressed our concerns with regard to right-leaning movements to our counterparts in the past, we observed that they turned a blind eye to this matter due to domestic political reasons, he said. This is also because it requires greater effort to treat and overcome recurring ailments such as racism and xenophobia in the West than address the problems in the East, which are mostly due to underdevelopment. (The right wing will soon be running all of Europe. You are screwed) http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/turkish-president-tells-euro pe-it-must-put-up-with-flood-of-muslim-invaders-and-freeloaders/lampedusa-21 -jpeg/ http://barenakedislam.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/lampedusa-21-jpeg.png?w=58 7h=390In this regard, he went on to say the threshold of tolerance should be continually raised. In his opinion, the first step in this direction is the change of rhetoric and adoption of new political and diplomatic language. He also said that Turkey is developing democratic reforms and values of multiculturalism. And Europe he said should not abandon multiculturalism it once proclaimed. http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/turkish-president-tells-euro pe-it-must-put-up-with-flood-of-muslim-invaders-and-freeloaders/illegal-immi grants-from-north-africa-arrive-on-the-southern-italian-island-of-lampedusa/ http://barenakedislam.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/610x-2.jpg?w=590h=383 Abdullah Gul pointed out that his country supports the wave of democratic changes in North Africa and the Middle East and fair demands of reforms by the people. (Then you take the Muslim garbage flowing out of there) He noted, though, that his country has already passed this stage, but continues democratic reforms and plans. For this purpose, they plan to draft a new constitution. The Turkish leader noted that increasing ethnic, cultural and religious tensions can result in tensions and division in society, but it is the state that must control these processes. The task of the state is to secure for all its citizens, regardless of religion, language and race, equal constitutional rights and.equal opportunities, Abdullah Gul said.(That doesn't include Muslim illegal alien invaders) http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/turkish-president-tells-euro pe-it-must-put-up-with-flood-of-muslim-invaders-and-freeloaders/youtubemusli mdemographics1vi-vi-10/ http://barenakedislam.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/youtubemuslimdemographics1 vi-vi2.jpg?w=452h=295 * _ 22 Comments on Turkish President tells Europe it must put up with flood of Muslim invaders and freeloaders 1. http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/e2686f0cb255ffe5ed5d0c8c8c3229d9?s=26d=wavatar r=PGSchmankmeister says: September 15, 2011 at 7:40 PM http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/turkish-president-tells-euro pe-it-must-put-up-with-flood-of-muslim-invaders-and-freeloaders/#comment-169 738 War is coming very soon. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org
[osint] Rape of Women and even female infants
http://actjonesboroar.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/rape-the-vicious-tactic-of-ji had/ Rape - The Vicious Tactic of Jihad Posted on http://actjonesboroar.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/rape-the-vicious-tactic-of-j ihad/ September 13, 2011 by http://actjonesboroar.wordpress.com/author/burkasrugly/ burkasrugly From Somalia in the south to Stockholm in the north, from Lahore in the east to London in the west, there is a tremendous resurgence of rapes carried out by gangs of radical Muslim men. Rape has always been a tool of Islamic subjugation. This started and was sanctioned by none other than Mohammed. The sadistic prophet of Islam watched one day while 800 Jewish men were brutally beheaded simply because they refused to convert to Islam. Their daughters and wives became the property of their Islamic conquerors to be used as concubines or sex slaves. That very night we are told Mohammed drenched in the blood of Jewish males forced himself on a Jewish woman who had earlier watched her husband's head severed from his body. What a wonderful wedding present ! First you are forced to watch the decapitation of your husband and then you are raped a few hours later by the head boar himself, Mohammed. Rape was started, endorsed and sanctified by the psychotic prophet. And his followers are still at it today. We are told by reliable sources that 90% of the rapes in Scandinavia are committed by gangs of radical young Muslim men. Last week there was a young 14-year-old girl in Norway who committed suicide because several months before she had been gang raped by a group of Muslim monsters. She was not able to deal with the depression and unfortunately took her own life. I truly feel sorry for her parents and pray for them every day. In Pakistan recently a new low was set. A gang of adult Muslim men raped a 2-year-old baby girl. WHY ?Her Christian parents had refused to convert to Islam. The parents needed to be shown the error of their ways and thus, these real Muslim men violated and raped this infant. These guys are real hunks of excrement, probably of the porcine variety. Rape is first and foremost about power ! In the setting of Islam it is about the right of Muslim men to dominate the bodies and ultimately the spirits of women. If you dominate the bodies of women you will also break their spirits. Western women are raped by these beasts because they don't wear canvass coffins a.k.a burkas. They are raped to teach them a lesson. They are raped because they are infidels. They are raped because they deserve it. In short, the woman is always at fault and justice is administered by vigilante mobs of Muslims. The National Organization of Women (NOW) can no longer ignore these crimes against females. NOW must now speak up or forever surrender any claims to be concerned about the first human right of all women - the right not to be raped. In hoc signo, Constantine [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] EUROPE's Muslims outraged over school textbooks that tell the truth about Islam
http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/author/barenakedislam/ http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/europes-muslims-outraged-ove r-school-textbooks-that-tell-the-truth-about-islam/ EUROPE's Muslims outraged over school textbooks that tell the truth about Islam http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/author/barenakedislam/ barenakedislam | September 15, 2011 at 9:13 PM | Categories: http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/?cat=173710 Religion of Hate | URL: http://wp.me/peHnV-zEN http://wp.me/peHnV-zEN Muslims are foaming at the mouth because European school books present a very accurate image of Islam and Muslims, using valid portrayals that breed mistrust of the faith and its people (rightly so), a five-country study published showed. (Looks like the Saudis haven't been financing textbooks in Europe the way they have in the US) http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/europes-muslims-outraged-ove r-school-textbooks-that-tell-the-truth-about-islam/fjihadkid-vi/ http://barenakedislam.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/fjihadkid-vi.jpg?w=300h=2 95AFP http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ggFA5_XB99zBpsUm2dVH3l97 hYkw?docId=CNG.35c63bbf1fdb28f2aa6419e0fe07dc2d.321 This factual view reflects cultural racism, (what race is Islam?) concluded Germany's Georg Eckert Institute for textbook research, which analysed 27 volumes used in classrooms in Britain, France, Austria, Spain and Germany. Islam is always presented as an outdated system of rules which has not changed since its golden age, (It IS!) Susan Krohnert-Othman, the institute's project director, told reporters. The http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/europes-muslims-outraged-ove r-school-textbooks-that-tell-the-truth-about-islam/pjihadkid-vi/ http://barenakedislam.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/pjihadkid-vi.jpg?w=300h=2 88researchers concluded that Islam is frequently presented as a homogenous entity without reflecting its diversity in different parts of the world (The people who practice it are diverse, the religion is NOT). The report did not find major differences between the five countries studied. The textbooks used at the secondary school level frequently set an antiquated Islam against a modern Europe and depict them as in http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/europes-muslims-outraged-ove r-school-textbooks-that-tell-the-truth-about-islam/ajihadkid-vi-2/ http://barenakedislam.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/ajihadkid-vi1.jpg?w=300h= 282conflict with each other. (Europe IS modern, nothing about Islam is) Krohnert-Othman said that such representations cannot challenge populist Islamophobia among pupils. (And this is a BAD thing because why?) Even modern European school books include oversimplified presentations of Islam and they stand in the way of a credible intercultural dialogue with the Muslim world, said Germany's minister of state for http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/europes-muslims-outraged-ove r-school-textbooks-that-tell-the-truth-about-islam/ujihadkid-vi/ http://barenakedislam.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/ujihadkid-vi.jpg?w=290h=3 00European affairs at the foreign ministry, Cornelia Pieper, after reading the study's findings. (There is no such thing as intercultural dialog with Muslims. It's their way or or the swordway) The researchers called on schools to present information on reforms advocated by Muslim clerics and intellectuals as well as the modernisation process within the religion. (Oh riiight! Reforms by radical Islamist clerics. That's what we need) And they said instruction on cultural diversity needed a major overhaul. (Europe IS culturally diverse. Islam is not) Muslims must no longer be classified as a separate group consisting of non-European immigrants whose traditions prevent integration, the researchers concluded. (They ARE separate because they want to be separate. They consider themselves and their gutter religion superior to everything else) http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/europes-muslims-outraged-ove r-school-textbooks-that-tell-the-truth-about-islam/islamicholywarvi-vi-6/ http://barenakedislam.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/islamicholywarvi-vi.jpg?w= 550h=307 Share this: * * * * * * * * _ 17 Comments on EUROPE's Muslims outraged over school textbooks that tell the truth about Islam 1. http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/a86cd04862c55bc9c0fa874f8ac63ce6?s=26d=wavatar r=PGLorenzo Bouchard http://(GuardiansofDemocracy) says: September 15, 2011 at 9:49 PM http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/europes-muslims-outraged-ove r-school-textbooks-that-tell-the-truth-about-islam/#comment-169787 All that remains is Total War against Islam, PERIOD! Sign the Ban Islam petition at: http://www.petitiononline.com/MYSTIC/petition.html Guardians of Democracy, ARISE! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[osint] Obama's List of Religious Freedom Violators Excludes 6 Egregious Violators
Egypt, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Turkmenistan and Vietnam excluded. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/administration-s-list-religious-freedom- violators-excludes-pakistan-5-others Administration's List of Religious Freedom Violators Excludes Pakistan, 5 Others By Patrick Goodenough http://www.cnsnews.com/source/patrick-goodenough September 16, 2011 Subscribe to Patrick Goodenough's posts http://www.cnsnews.com/source/72503/feed http://w.sharethis.com/images/check-small.png http://w.sharethis.com/images/check-small.png http://w.sharethis.com/images/check-small.png http://w.sharethis.com/images/check-small.png http://www.cnsnews.com/image/uscirf USCIRF USCIRF chair Leonard Leo, chairman of the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom, on a trip to Vietnam. (Photo from USCIRF Web site) (CNSNews.com) - Almost 32 months after taking office, the Obama administration has for the first time designated countries of particular concern (CPCs) for religious persecution. But despite urging from religious freedom advocates, it did not add several countries accused of egregious violations. Instead, it designated the same eight countries that were named as CPCs the last time such designations were made, four days before President Bush left the White House. The countries designated this week as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released the annual report on international religious freedom were Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Uzbekistan. CPC designation and the annual report are requirements under the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA), which was designed to make the promotion of religious freedom around the world part of U.S. foreign policy. Countries designated as CPCs - because their governments perpetrate or condone systematic, ongoing, and egregious abuses - face U.S. actions, including sanctions and diplomatic pressure to encourage improvements, although punitive actions may be waived. The IRFA also established an independent, bipartisan body, the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), to advise the executive and legislative branches. USCIRF Chairman Leonard Leo commended the State Department's International Religious Freedom Office and ambassador-at-large for religious freedom Suzan Johnson Cook for their efforts, and he urged the administration to follow the release of the annual report with vigorous U.S. diplomatic activity to seek improvements with respect to this fundamental human right. But Leo voiced disappointment that the administration had not heeded the commission's recommendation to add to the CPC list Egypt, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Turkmenistan and Vietnam. Repeating the current list continues glaring omissions, such as Pakistan and Vietnam, he said. Since CPC designations can be made at any time, we respectfully urge Secretary Clinton to consider the six additional countries we recommended for designation. Of those six, Iraq and Vietnam were previous designated CPCs. The Bush administration removed Iraq in 2004, following the fall of the Baathist regime; and Vietnam in 2006, citing improvements as a result of active lobbying of the communist authorities in Hanoi. Pointing to abuses against Buddhists, Catholics and evangelicals, religious freedom advocacy groups opposed the removal of Vietnam http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/move-normalize-trade-ties-vietnam-prais ed-condemned from the outset. And they say the plight of religious minorities - especially Christians - in Iraq has been getting steadily worse for several years, with the authorities neither protecting the vulnerable nor bringing perpetrators to justice. The USCIRF says that since 2008 Egypt has witnessed a dramatic increase in violence targeting the Coptic Christian minority, while in Nigeria the government has failed even to attempt to stem escalating cycles of violence between Christians and Muslims. In Turkmenistan, official harassment of religious adherents persist. 'Millions of Pakistani Christians surprised' The administration's failure to designate Pakistan http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/fresh-calls-us-blacklist-pakistan-relig i as a CPC is particularly troublesome, given the recent spotlight on the country's blasphemy laws and the murder early this year of two prominent opponents of the laws. During the State Department's release of the report on Tuesday, assistant secretary of state for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner was asked about the Pakistan decision. http://www.cnsnews.com/image/pakistan-shahbaz-bhatti-0 Pakistan Shahbaz Bhatti Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti was shot dead in Islamabad on March 2, 2011. (Photo: Pakistan Minorities Ministry) He conceded that the Pakistani government has done nothing to reform http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/climate-fear-pakistani-lawmaker-withdra w the blasphemy laws, but said several times that it has taken positive steps since the
[osint] Iran's Nuclear Aims and Apocalyptic Prophecy
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10388/pub_detail.asp September 16, 2011 Iran's Nuclear Aims and Apocalyptic Prophecy http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/authors/id.193/author_detail.asp Lt. Colonel James Zumwalt, USMC (ret) http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20110214_AhmadinejadBomb.jpg Iran's Nuclear Ambitions on Track to Fulfill 12th Imam's Return Forty-seven years ago this month, a television ad--aired only once--became the most famous political commercial of all time. During the 1964 U.S. presidential race, Lyndon Johnson's campaign ran the daisy ad. A young girl--perhaps 4 years old--plucks petals off a daisy while attempting to count: 5, 7, 6, 6, 8, 9. Her voice fades, overridden by a man's voice counting down a missile launch. Zooming in on the little girl's iris, the camera cuts to a nuclear mushroom cloud. President Johnson then says, We must either love each other or we must die. The narrator ends with, Vote for President Johnson on November 3. The stakes are too high for you to stay home. Having its intended shock value, the ad served to create voter concerns Republican challenger Barry Goldwater advocated reckless nuclear testing. For the 2012 campaign, Republicans might consider a variation of the commercial. Based on today's kumbaya foreign policy embracing enemies committed to our destruction--such as the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran--it could run Barack Obama voicing Johnson's message to love each other. And, with Tehran well on its way to developing nuclear weapons, the countdown to the missile launch would be in Farsi--Iran's native language. There should be no doubt, absent a regime change that tosses both its clerics and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad out of power, Tehran's nuclear program will continue until the mullahs possess a weapon of mass destruction. There should be no doubt, there is no diplomatic action that will cause Tehran to voluntarily suspend this program. There should be no doubt, had there ever been a chance for diplomacy to work, it no longer does, as Tehran fears NATO's actions in Libya to topple an Arab tyrant may be applied to topple a Persian one. And there should be no doubt, based on the cultist beliefs of Iran's clerics and president, once Iran acquires a nuclear weapon, these men will not hesitate to use it in fulfillment of their self-proclaimed destiny to prepare for the 12th Imam's return. Born in the ninth century, the 12th Imam disappeared at the age of five and supposedly exists in a state of occultation, destined to return to Earth in the future. He will establish a global caliphate, making all other religions submissive to Islam. The 12th Imam's return will occur only as the world is embroiled in chaos. But it is here the Iranian leadership's beliefs differ from the vast majority of Muslims. While most believe that world chaos must evolve naturally, Iran's leadership believes man can trigger it. No wonder, then, Tehran is fanatically committed to acquiring nuclear weapons. Next year is shaping up as the year Ahmadinejad intends to create that chaos: First, according to an expert on the subject, the belief is the 12th Imam will not return in an odd-numbered year. Second, Ahmadinejad reportedly told other Middle East leaders the 12th Imam will return while he is still president. Ahmadinejad's second term in office ends in August 2013. As he is limited to serving two terms, Ahmadinejad would have 15 months--if the required chaos is to occur in an even-numbered year--to initiate the process. (Note: Ultimate authority in Iran lies with the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He stole the 2009 presidential election from the Iranian people by ruling Ahmadinejad had won what he had lost. That raises the possibility Khamenei could also decide next year that Ahmadinejad is eligible to run for a third term, thus targeting either 2014 or 2016 for the 12th Imam's return. However, since his reelection, Ahmadinejad--perhaps feeling he is personally ordained to usher in the 12th Imam--has tested Khamenei's patience through a lack of submissiveness to the supreme leader's decisions. Accordingly, he knows his days are numbered.) Third, the Stuxnet computer virus that attacked Iran's nuclear facilities last year severely damaged its nuclear program, causing major delays. Absent an initiative to recover from this, Tehran will be hard-pressed to develop a nuclear weapon by the end of 2012. That initiative has now been launched as Iran has doubled its efforts to produce enriched weapons-grade uranium. Fourth, Tehran is concerned the West recognizes it is heading down the homestretch in developing this capability and may finally realize it will never abandon the program, and will launch a strike against its nuclear facilities. For this reason, Iran has been moving essential parts of the production process deep underground. The Mayan Indian civilization left an
[osint] Erasing Jews from Jerusalem
_ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InfidelsAreCool/~3/c9Bg5ujgIdI/?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=email The story behind the REAL occupation in the middle east Posted: 15 Sep 2011 05:15 AM PDT Everyone likes to moan and bitch about the poor palestinians, and how their land was taken in 1948 by the evil Joos. Those people ought to remove their heads from their asses, and read a damned history book. That would clear up a whole lot of misinformation. But why would liberals and islamists want to deal in actual fact, when slander, namecalling and false propaganda are so much more fun? September 4, 2011 Erasing Jews from Jerusalem By http://www.americanthinker.com/janet_tassel/ Janet Tassel Our friends at the invaluable Palestinian Media Watch (PMW-Palwatch.org) have been diligently following the latest in the Palestinian policy of historical revisionism: erasing Jewish connection to the Temple Mount -- ginning up energy for the big day at the U.N. To take but two examples of the spurious Jewish attachment to their alleged Temple, try this one from Al-Hayat Al-Jadida on August 9. August 9 is Tisha B'Av, the commemoration of the destruction of the First and Second Temples: Since Monday morning, groups of extremist Jews have been roaming the courtyards of Al-Aqsa mosque one after the other, under heavy police protection, on the occasion of the so-called destruction of the TempleThis Sunday, the occupation's police handed the shop owners in the Market of the Cotton Merchants...which leads to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, an order forcing them to close their shops on Monday afternoon...in order to facilitate the arrival of the settlers to the Market, for the sake of holding special Talmudic rituals on the occasion of the destruction of the alleged Temple. Or, from the same Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, on July 1, by its columnist on religious affairs: The great and exalted Allah commanded the angel Gabriel to place Muhammad upon the riding beast Al-Buraq, which was a cross between horse and donkey. The night journey was both physical and spiritualOnce he reached the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the angel Gabriel removed Muhammad from upon Al-Buraq's back, and then he tied the beast to the Al-Buraq rock, which was called the 'Al-Buraq Wall.' The Jews changed its name to the 'Wailing Wall,' because the Jews are always trying to change Arabic names into Hebrew names As PMW notes, the 'night journey' mentioned in the Qur'an is dated to 621 CE. The mosque was built on the Temple Mount by the son of Ummayed Caliph Abd Al-Malik 84 years later in 705 CE. And as to the land of Israel: The Zionists must acknowledge publicly, in front of the world, that the Jews have no connection to the Palestinian Arab land, upon whose ruins arose the colonialist settler Zionist plan that settles and expels, represented by the Israeli apartheid state. That which occurred two thousand years ago (i.e. the Jewish/Israeli presence in the land)...represents in the book of history nothing more than invention and falsification and a coarse and crude form of colonialism There is much more at the website, including the claim that the Israelis stole our clothing, our keffiyeh, our falafel, and our humus. And furthermore, because the Palestinians are tired of looking out on sin and filth (Jews' praying at Western Wall) ... we are drawing our new maps. When they [Israelis] disappear from the picture, like a forgotten chapter of our city's history, we will build it anew[.] The Arabs' meretricious propaganda is a relatively modern phenomenon. Returning to the Qur'an, neither Jerusalem nor Zion is mentioned even once. Major figures from the Hebrew Bible are co-opted and converted to Muslim prophets, though, and Jews are even instructed to enter the Holy Land that God has decreed for you in Sura 5, verse 21. Sura 17, verse 104 states: And we [Muslims] said to the Children afterwards [after we drowned Pharaoh and his troops] 'Go live in this land. When the final prophecy comes to pass, we will summon you all in one group.' And scholars have seen in Sura 2, verse 142 ff a repudiation of Jerusalem, though it is not mentioned by name, when Muslims are instructed to change the direction of prayer (qibla) from Syria to the Sacred Mosque in Mecca So, as Daniel Pipes puts it: Where does Jerusalem fit in Islam and Muslim history? It is not the place to which they pray, is not once mentioned by name in prayers, and it is connected to no mundane events in Muhammad's life. The city never served as capital of a sovereign Muslim state, and it never became a cultural or scholarly center. Little of political import was initiated there. Indeed, as Pipes details in a comprehensive essay in Middle East Quarterly (September 2001), with some exceptions, Jerusalem had little or no importance for Islam. One exception was the Umayyad dynasty (661-750 CE), under whose rule was built Islam's
[osint] Guantanamo Recidivism Rate Climbs Higher
This is good news. Can't kill the bastards if they are locked up and secure! But, back home and in line of sight? Bang, you're dead. Problem solved. During a joint hearing of the Senate and House intelligence committees yesterday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified that the recidivism rate for former Guantanamo detainees has risen to an estimated 27 percent. The total number of confirmed and suspected recidivists, according to Clapper, is now 161.- Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/09/guantanamo_recidivis.php#ixz z1Y7G2uKqo http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/09/guantanamo_recidivis.php#ixzz 1Y7G2uKqo Guantanamo recidivism rate climbs higher By Thomas Joscelyn September 14, 2011 During a joint hearing of the Senate and House intelligence committees yesterday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified that the recidivism rate for former Guantanamo detainees has risen to an estimated 27 percent. The total number of confirmed and suspected recidivists, according to Clapper, is now 161. The latest assessment is higher than the previous one offered by the DNI in December 2010. At the time, the DNI estimated that the recidivism rate was 25 percent, and included 150 confirmed and suspected recidivists. According to the DNI's December 2010 report, confirmed cases are those in which a preponderance of information identifies a specific former GTMO detainee as directly involved in terrorist or insurgent activities. In suspected recidivism cases, [p]lausible but unverified or single-source reporting indicates a specific former GTMO detainee is directly involved in terrorist or insurgent activities. Engaging in anti-US statements or propaganda does not qualify as terrorist or insurgent activity in either confirmed or suspected cases. The US government's estimate of the number of ex-Guantanamo detainees who have returned to jihad has steadily increased over time. In June 2008, the Defense Department reported that 37 former detainees were confirmed or suspected recidivists. On Jan. 13, 2009 -- seven months later -- Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said that number had climbed to 61. By May 2009, when a recidivism assessment was leaked to The New York Times (the report was based on information available as of mid-March 2009), the Defense Dept. had found that the same metric had risen further to 74 -- exactly double the Pentagon's estimate just 11 months before. The Obama administration confirmed in February 2010 that the recidivism rate was then 20 percent, meaning that more than 100 former Guantanamo detainees were either confirmed or suspected recidivists at the time. By December 2010, the number had climbed even higher -- to 150 former detainees. And now, that estimate has risen again -- to 161 ex-Guantanamo detainees. Many of them have been taken off the battlefield through kinetic encounters, Clapper explained, with respect to the recidivists. One of these kinetic encounters occurred earlier this month, when Afghan and Coalition security forces killed a former Guantanamo detainee named Sabar Lal Melma and captured another ex-Guantanamo detainee during a raid in Afghanistan. [See LWJ report, Ex-Gitmo detainee killed in Afghanistan http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/09/ex-gitmo_detainee_ki_1.php .] Melma, according to an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) press release, was a key affiliate of the al Qaeda network and responsible for attacks and financing insurgent operations in the Pech district, Kunar province. Melma was also in contact with several senior al Qaeda members throughout Kunar and Pakistan. As of December 2010, most of the recidivists remained at large. The DNI reported that 13 were dead, 54 were in custody, and an additional 83 remained at large. The current breakdown of killed/captured versus at large recidivists is not publicly available. http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/09/guantanamo_recidivis.php Link http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/09/guantanamo_recidivis-print.p hp lwj-print-icon-2.jpg http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/09/guantanamo_recidivis.php#com ments Comments(7) javascript:void(0) ShareThis Find related articles: Afghanistan http://www.longwarjournal.org/tags/Afghanistan/common/ , Guantanamo http://www.longwarjournal.org/tags/Guantanamo/common/ , Recidivists http://www.longwarjournal.org/tags/Recidivists/common/ READER COMMENTS: Guantanamo recidivism rate climbs higher Posted by Max at September 14, 2011 4:16 PM ET: Oh yes, I promise to be a good muslim and continue in Jihad; OOPS, I meant struggle against the West; OOPS, I meant struggle against evil; I will not engage in terrorism, I will not engage in terrorism, Igrin! Yea, and I've got some swampland at the north pole for anyone who believes that. Posted by Mr T at September 14, 2011 5:30 PM ET: Almost 1/3 are confirmed to continue the fight. That doesn't count
[osint] The Palestinian Obsession
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0911/glick091611.php3?printer_friendly Sept. 16, 2011 / 17 Elul, 5771 The Palestinian obsession By Caroline B. Glick http://www.jewishworldreview.com/images/arafat_abbas_v_sign_cover.jpg If nothing else, the Palestinians' UN statehood gambit goes a long way towards revealing the deep-seated European and US pathologies that enable and prolong the Palestinian conflict with Israel. In a nutshell, the Palestinian Authority - or Fatah - or PLO initiative of asking the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly to upgrade its status to that of a sovereign UN member state or a sovereign non-UN member state is an act of diplomatic aggression. Eighteen years ago this week, on September 13, 1993, the PLO signed the Declaration of Principles with Israel on the White House lawn. There, the terror group committed itself to a peace process in which all disputes between Israel and the PLO - including Palestinian statehood - would be settled in the framework of bilateral negotiations. The Palestinian Authority was established on the basis of this accord. The territory, money, arms and international legitimacy it has been given was due entirely to the PLO pledge to resolve the Palestinian conflict with Israel through bilateral negotiations. By abandoning negotiations with Israel two years ago, and opting instead to achieve its nationalist aims outside the framework of a peace treaty with Israel, the Palestinians are destroying the diplomatic edifice on which the entire concept of a peace process is based. They are announcing that they have no intention of living at peace with Israel. Rather they intend to move ahead at Israel's expense. In truth, there is little new in the Palestinians' behavior. They have been using the UN to weaken Israel diplomatically since the early 1970s. Moreover, even if their bid does provide them with upgraded diplomatic status, it won't change the reality on the ground, nor are the Palestinians particularly interested in changing the situation on the ground. As the PLO ambassador in Lebanon Abdullah Abdullah made clear in an interview Wednesday with Lebanon's Daily Star, in the event that the UN recognizes some form of Palestinian statehood at the UN, the new State of Palestine will still expect the UN to support the so-called Palestinian refugees. This is true, he said, even for the refugees who live in Gaza, Judea and Samaria. That is, the same UN that the Palestinians seek recognition of statehood from will be expected to provide relief to Palestinian refugees living inside of Palestine. As he put it, Even Palestinian refugees living in [refugee camps] inside the [Palestinian] state, they are still refugees. They will not be considered citizens. So if nothing will change on the ground, why do the US and the EU care what the Palestinians do at the UN next week with their automatic General Assembly majority? Why have the senior peace processors of Washington and Europe descended on Jerusalem and Ramallah, begging and pleading with the Palestinians to cancel their plans? Why have the Americans and the Europeans been pressuring Israel to make massive concessions to the Palestinians in order to convince them to put out the diplomatic fire there have set at the UN? Why are the White House and the State Department telling the media that the US will consider it a major diplomatic embarrassment if the Palestinians go through with their threats? Why in short, do the Americans and the Europeans care about this? The Palestinians have certainly never given either the Americans or the Europeans a good reason to support their cause. Just this week, the PLO representative in Washington told reporters that the future state of Palestine will ban Jews and homosexuals. And yet, the Obama administration and the EU have made the establishment of a racist, homophobic Palestinian state the greatest aim of their policies in the Middle East. Every single Palestinian leader from the supposedly moderate Fatah party has rejected Israel's right to exist and stated that they will never set aside their demand that Israel accept millions of foreign born Arabs - the so-called Palestinian refugees -- as citizens. They say this with the full knowledge that this demand is nothing less than a demand for Israel's destruction. And yet, both the US and the EU, which certainly do not support the destruction of Israel, insist that it is imperative to strengthen and support the supposedly moderate Fatah party which seeks the destruction of Israel. Every year, the US and Europe transfer collectively approximately a billion dollars in various forms of aid to the Palestinian Authority and yet, the PA has failed to develop a market economy capable of supporting the Palestinians without foreign assistance. Rather, they have developed a welfare society where most economic activity stems from foreign handouts. Rather
[osint] ex-Muslim: Koran Demands Violent Jihad and Teaches Hate
http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/author/barenakedislam/ http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/this-saudi-ex-muslim-better- watch-his-head/ This Saudi ex-Muslim better watch his head http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/author/barenakedislam/ barenakedislam | September 14, 2011 at 4:53 PM | Categories: http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/?cat=173710 Religion of Hate | URL: http://wp.me/peHnV-zAt http://wp.me/peHnV-zAt Ex-Muslim author says, The Quran demands violent jihad and teaches believers to hate all Christians and Jews. The Blaze http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ex-muslim-author-koran-demands-jihad-teache s-believers-to-hate-christians-and-jews/ Al Fadi, a Saudi native now living in America, is setting out to educate the West about his former religion - Islam. His message, rooted in what he says are deep convictions and personal truth, is sure to inspire controversy. Al Fadi converted to Christianity after coming to the United States for college. While he claims that he initially planned to convert everyone he met to Islam, something completely unexpected happened. After meeting Christians for the first time in his life, al Fadi became enamored. He explained his conversion to CBN's Erick Stakelbeck: Basically, the more I met people who follow Christ, the more I realized that they are distinct and unique in their character. They're kind, they're patient, they're loving, they have moral values, they don't look at others with hatred. Before long, he abandoned Islam, leaving him to embrace Jesus Christ. His conversion, alone, would have led to a death sentence in his homeland. Even now, danger isn't an impossibility (al Fadi is actually a pseudonym). But regardless of the dangers he faces for sharing his truth, he says that it's worth it. Now, al Fadi is making it a mission to correct what he says are the West's misconceptions about Islam. In an interview with CBN, he explained, in detail, his interpretation of Islam and those who are not Muslims: When I lived in Saudi Arabia, not only did I look at non-Muslims as second class, you would look at non-devout Muslims as second class citizens. If Islam has to prosper, be the superior religion, then certain steps must be taken by its followers, including spreading Islam at any cost, including the sword and killing any opposition. So you learn all of these things and then of course you learn that the Koran tells you to hate the Christians and the Jews. Share this: * * * * * * * * _ 19 Comments on This Saudi ex-Muslim better watch his head 1. http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/5887af241e478fff853eb30a63fbc83a?s=26d=wavatar r=PGIstanbul_chick says: September 14, 2011 at 5:03 PM http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/this-saudi-ex-muslim-better- watch-his-head/#comment-169288 Now watch all of the musloid videos refuting what this guy has to say. They've done it with Wafa Sultan, Walid Shoebat, Nonie Darwish and many others. They will slow them down, pick out a word or two and claim he's a liar, he is not a native arabic speaker. That's not how our accents are! Because that's all they've got. They can't refute what he's saying so they desperately try to convince the guillable kaffr that he, and others, are liar. Pathetic. One colossal joke but a very, very dangerous joke. 2. http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/8dec2aac3b118c8ad03fc59d8d1dc5da?s=26d=wavatar r=PGKristen McFarland says: September 14, 2011 at 5:06 PM http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/this-saudi-ex-muslim-better- watch-his-head/#comment-169291 I hope the man has protection.if he's sincere of course.there people out there on both sides who are doing it for money ..there isn't anything more evil than the 'religion of peace'.taqiyya - lying and dissembling for it's own sake.have to be judicious and be very careful.who and what to believe..k 3. http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/5887af241e478fff853eb30a63fbc83a?s=26d=wavatar r=PGIstanbul_chick says: September 14, 2011 at 5:11 PM http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/this-saudi-ex-muslim-better- watch-his-head/#comment-169293 In the last vid I'm glad that he mentioned that mo the molestor tried to sell himself off as the messiah to the Jews and they rejected him and I'm glad that Stakelbeck jumped on it and reminded folks that that is when mo's pathological hatred of Jews and Christians comes from. But, I wish Al Fadi had also mentioned that mo's followers grew AFTER the death of Khadija, mo's rich cougar wife. They were not followers, they were paid killers because you KNOW mo got his grubby hands on her money after she died and used that new found cash flow to hire killers. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com.
[osint] Muslim-leftist Radical in the White House most Successful Enemy Penetration of the US Government in History
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/40313 Obama is the most successful enemy penetration of the US Government in American history Obama's ineligibility: Muslim-leftist radical in the White House Author - Lawrence Sellin Thursday, September 15, 2011 (25) http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/site/comments/obamas-ineligibility -prepare-to-defend-america-muslim-leftist-radical-in-th/ Comments | http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/print-friendly/40313 Print friendly | mailto:lett...@canadafreepress.com?subject=Dear%20Canada%20Free%20Press Email Us http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/40313 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/40313 109 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/40313 _ Barack Hussein Obama is the most successful enemy penetration of the US Government in American history. During his lifetime, he was nurtured, mentored and supported by radical leftist and fundamentalist Islamic elements both of which hate the United States and seek its demise by whatever means necessary. Obama's immediate family were close to the Communist Party http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/what_barack_obama_learned_from.html or sympathetic to its aims. His mother Stanley Ann Dunham has been described by former classmates as a fellow traveler. His grandfather Stanley Armour Dunham arranged Obama's mentorship by Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis, originally from Chicago and the former editor of the Chicago Communist paper, the Star. In a 1965 paper Problems Facing Our Socialism http://www.vdare.com/posts/barack-obama-srs-mugabeist-plan-for-kenya published in the East Africa Journal, his Muslim father, Barack Obama Sr., from whom Obama obtained his Dreams, attacked the economic proposals of pro-Western 'third way Kenyan leader Tom Mboya, siding with the communist-allied leader Oginga Odinga, father of current Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga, who has claimed to be Obama's cousin. The radical socialist proposals recommended by Obama, Sr. closely resemble those eventually implemented by Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. Obama once campaigned for the pro-Sharia, Marxist Raila Odinga, who graduated from East Germany's Magdeburg University in 1970 on a scholarship provided by the East German government. He was a member of Parliament representing an area in western Kenya, which was the birthplace of Obama's father. Odinga and Obama were nearly inseparable throughout his six-day stay. The two traveled together throughout Kenya and Obama spoke on behalf of Odinga at numerous rallies. (Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/12/obamas-kenya-ghosts/ ) Prior to the Dec. 27, 2007 Kenyan presidential election, Odinga had the backing of Kenya's Muslim community. In exchange for their support, Odinga promised the recognition of Islam as the only true religion, that Islamic leaders would have an oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions [emphasis in original], installation of Shariah courts in every jurisdiction, a ban on Christian preaching, replacement of the police commissioner who allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists, adoption of a women's dress code, and bans on alcohol and pork. (Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/12/obamas-kenya-ghosts/ ) Within hours after the final election results were announced on December 30, 2007, an election which Odinga lost by more than 230,000 votes, violence led by Odinga supporters began. It eventually led to more than 1,500 Kenyans deaths. Many were slain by machete-armed attackers. More than 500,000 were displaced by the religious strife. Villages lay in ruin. Many of the atrocities were perpetrated by Muslims against Christians. (Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/12/obamas-kenya-ghosts/ ) It was Obama's friendship with Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour and his sponsorship of Obama as a prospective Harvard law student, however, that probably helped merge Obama's Islamic, leftist and black nationalist anti-American views. It is likely that Obama became closely associated with al-Mansour as early as age 25. Formerly known as Donald Warden, al-Mansour, an American, was a mentor of Black Panther founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in the early 1960s. He changed his name after studying Islam and learning Arabic. He is well known within the black community as a lawyer, an orthodox Muslim, a black nationalist, an author, an international deal-maker, an educator, and an outspoken enemy of Israel. His writings and books are packed with anti-American rhetoric reminiscent of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's disgraced former pastor. Al-Mansour has close ties to Saudi Arabia and is a personal advisor to Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the world's 19th wealthiest person. (Newsmax http://www.newsmax.com/KenTimmerman/obama-sutton-saudi/2008/09/03/id/339914 ) Percy Sutton, the former borough president of
[osint] PLO official: Palestinians, Israelis must be totally separated [no Jewish minority]
But of course it's Israel, where IIRC ~40% of the Knesset is Arab, that's the real apartheid state. Everybody knows that. --S. http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/plo-official-palestinians-isra elis-must-be-totally-separated-1.384493 PLO official: Palestinians, Israelis must be totally separated Commenting on the subject of minority rights in the potential Palestinian state, PLO envoy to the U.S. says past experience shows the two people should be 'totally separated.' By http://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/haaretz-1.367584 Haaretz The future independent Palestinian state will not include a Jewish minority, a top Palestinian official told USA Today on Wednesday, adding that it was in the best interest of both peoples to be separated. Maen Areikat, PLO Ambassador to the United States, made the comment just as the Palestinian Authority, led by President Mahmoud Abbas, was preparing to offer up Palestinian statehood to a vote in the United Nations General Assembly later this month. Answering a question about the legal status of a Jewish minority in the future state, Areikat apprently rejected the issue, saying: I believe, I still believe that as a first step we need to be totally separated, adding I think we can contemplate these issues in the future. After the experience of the last 44 years, of military occupation and all the conflict and friction, I think it will be in the best interest that the two peoples should be separated, Areikat added. Former U.S. National Security Council official Elliot Abrams responded to the Palestinian official's comment, saying to USA Today that the Palestinian demand was a despicable form of anti-Semitism, adding: No civilized country would act this way. The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama had been openly opposing the planned Palestinian statehood bid at the United Nations, arguing that a unilateral recognition of Palestinian independence would severely injure attempts at a comprehensive peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians. Speaking in an interview on Tuesday, Obama indicated that Washington did not feel think that it would actually lead to the outcome that we want, which is a two-state solution. Last week, the State Department said the U.S. would veto a resolution for Palestinian statehood in the council, but Obama had yet to comment directly on the matter. What we've said is that going to the UN is a distraction, does not solve the problem, he said. This issue is only going to be resolved by Israelis and Palestinians agreeing to something. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Muslims of Religion of Peace, Love...and B.S. Burn Homosexuals Alive
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[osint] The 10 Reasons We Know Iran Wants the Bomb
http://www.realite-eu.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=9dJBLLNkGiF http://www.realite-eu.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=9dJBLLNkGiFb=231 5291ct=11206139 b=2315291ct=11206139 06.09.2011 The 10 Reasons We Know Iran Wants the Bomb - Bruno Tertrais On September 4, Tehran announced that the Bushehr power plant was connected to the grid. Bushehr is the peaceful façade of Irans nuclear program. Meanwhile, as the latest IAEA report of September 2 establishes, Iran continues to make progress toward obtaining a nuclear weapon capability. Noteworthy in this report is the Agencys stated increasing concern about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed military nuclear activities including those related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile. [1] How do we know that Iran wants the Bomb? There is no single smoking gun (nor could there ever be one absent a nuclear test), but rather a multitude of smoldering guns. Most come from the work of the IAEA. Taken together, they lead to the inescapable conclusion that Iran wants at least a nuclear weapon option, and probably the Bomb. 1. Iran has sought to hide its activities and installations from the IAEA In 2003, the magnitude of Irans efforts became public. Iran had concealed the construction of an enrichment plant at Natanz and of a research reactor at Arak, the fabrication of centrifuges, the existence of a laser enrichment program, and a number of sensitive experiments. [2] Iran then prevented the IAEA from a full inspection of the Lavisan-Shian and Parchin sites, suspected of hosting nuclear activities. It later failed to declare in advance the construction of the Fordow enrichment plant. 2. Irans most sensitive activities are controlled by the Ministry of Defense While Irans program is officially under the control of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), the IAEA has established that many hidden nuclear-related activities were in fact conducted under the auspices of the Ministry of Defense. [3] 3. Irans enrichment program has no economic logic Irans gas reserves would allow the country to be self-sufficient regarding electricity generation for several decades. Tehrans investment in a costly enrichment program, allegedly to make fuel for nuclear power plants, has no economic rationale. Natanz has limited capability: if completed, it could fuel only one reactor for a year. No country has ever operated an enrichment facility for just one plant it is much cheaper, in such a case, to buy fuel on the market. 4. Irans enrichment program is inconsistent with its stated goals Iran claims that it needs 3% enriched uranium for its nuclear power plants. But Russia provides the fuel for Bushehr and it would be impossible for Iran to operate it with its own fuel. If the plan was to fuel a hypothetical future reactor, there is no reason why Tehran would have started enrichment as early as 2006. Iran is now building a second enrichment plant at Fordow, but this installation is much smaller than Natanz. Its size is consistent with a military purpose. In 2010, Iran has started to produce 20% enriched uranium, allegedly to re-fuel the Tehran research reactor. But there is no evidence that Iran has the know-how needed to make fuel rods for this particular reactor. 5. Iran possesses a document explaining how to cast uranium into hemispheres The IAEA has determined that Iran possesses a document which explains how to cast uranium metal into hemispheres that is, how to make a nuclear weapon core. [4] This document was given by the Khan network. 6. Iran is building a heavy-water reactor without a clear scientific purpose Iran is building at Arak a new research reactor. Its characteristics a 40 MW reactor using natural uranium and heavy water would make it well-suited for producing weapon-grade plutonium. In fact, it suspiciously resembles reactors used by other countries to produce such plutonium. It is noteworthy, in this regard, that Iran has conducted experiments of plutonium separation in hot cells. [5] 7. Iran has conducted weaponization-related experiments and studies Iran has produced polonium, which can be used for neutron initiation. [6] It has also conducted studies on neutron initiation using uranium deuteride (a Chinese method). [7] Organizations reporting to the Ministry of Defense have studied and tested the mechanics of nuclear weapon explosion (simultaneous detonation of high explosives around a spherical core). [8] Tehran has acknowledged experimenting with simultaneous detonations but claims that this is for non-nuclear purposes. [9] However, documents in the possession of the IAEA show that Iranian requirements are only consistent with a nuclear weapon design. [10] It is not known whether Iran is still conducting such activities. Perhaps its tests have been sufficiently conclusive as to give Tehran the ability to build a functional
[osint] Our Canine Heroes and Islamic Dogophobia
...there is more of goodness, decency and honor to be learned from a dog, than there is from the entire Koran. Muslims are simply scum. B http://tinyurl.com/5rpwkq4 http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011091414496/editorial/rsn-pick-of-the-day/ou r-canine-heroes-and-islamic-dogophobia.html Our Canine Heroes and Islamic Dogophobia Wednesday, 14 September 2011 07:05 Daniel Greenfield http://www.rightsidenews.com/component/option,com_mailto/link,c1afd62eeb774 633f497c1f7c9c9a7a8355791aa/tmpl,component/ E-mail http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011091414496/editorial/rsn-pick-of-the-day/ou r-canine-heroes-and-islamic-dogophobia/print.html Print http://www.rightsidenews.com/pdf/2011091414496/editorial/rsn-pick-of-the-da y/our-canine-heroes-and-islamic-dogophobia.pdf PDF Kalb, or dog, is one of the worst possible insults in the Muslim world. Call a man Kalb or Kalb ibn Kalb, if you want the knives to come out. In Afghanistan, those who fled the Taliban and returned to help the Coalition rebuild the country are called Sag shouey or Dog washers since Americans are infidel dogs and the Afghans who cooperate with Americans are menial servants of the dogs. If you like this article, please http://rightsidenews.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=1cf0488db68779540d6924 66fid=80b67972fb subscribe to our daily newsletter Mohammed, in addition to his affinity for pre-teen girls also had a compulsive hatred of dogs. Some Hadiths quote him ordering the killing of all dogs, others show him to be moderate ordering that only 'black dogs be killed. Which gives a special edge to the not uncommon description in the Muslim world of Obama as a black dog. After Osama bin Laden's execution, an imam of the Al-Aqsa mosque castigated the http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/05/imam-says-obama-will-hang-for-killing-bin -laden-the-dogs-rejoice-too-much/ Western dogs who had done it. And as it turned out a dog actually did accompany the SEAL team that took down Osama. Unlike the billions spent on trying to win over Pakistanis and Afghans, who went on aiding terrorists anyway-- the dogs remained true and loyal friends. On September 11th, among the first responders were our four footed friends who risked their lives http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/911-tenth-anniversary-memori al-i-suppose-mayor-bloomberg-has-no-room-for-these-first-responders-either/ clambering around the smoking rubble in search of survivors. Muslims believe that an angel cannot enter a home when a dog is inside. But after the Muslims had killed thousands of Americans, it was the dogs who acted as the angels finding the bodies where they could and helping give the families of the dead something to bury. military_dogs When Muslims plot terrorist attacks, it is the bomb sniffing dogs who serve as the front line of defense against them. Military dogs walk the front lines searching out Taliban explosives and have become primary targets of enemy snipers. At airports, we would do much better to fire the TSA's gropers and luggage thieves, and dump the naked scanners, and replace them with dogs. The enemy may fool our politicians, our clergy and our law enforcement-- but they will never fool a dog. Back in Israel, my parents found a puppy that had fallen into the hands of Muslim youths who tortured and abused it. That puppy grew into a wise and intelligent animal that went into a rage at the sight of one of its tormentors. No matter how they dressed or how well they spoke, people could be fooled, but she could never be fooled. On a bus passengers would sometimes take issue with the fury that poured out of her when scenting a member of a creed whose holy books say, Allah's Apostle ordered that the dogs should be killed. When the rash of bus bombings began, carried out by terrorists who occasionally disguised themselves as Israelis, that canine scrutiny and anger would have been invaluable. How can a dog tell the difference between a Muslim and a non-Muslim even when there are no racial or ethnic differences? There may be no physical differences, but there are moral ones. It may be the casual cruelty that Islam inculcates in its followers that is as visible in the body language and attitude to a sensitive animal-- as a gun is to an airport metal detector. In Iran, visitors tell of dogs who could distinguish http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2009/06/22/perpetuating-iran%E2%80%99s-isl amic-culture-of-hate/ between Zoroastrians and Muslims; In Sharifabad the dogs distinguished clearly between Moslem and Zoroastrian, and were prepared to go.full of hope, into a crowded Zoroastrian assembly, or to fall asleep trustfully in a Zoroastrian lane, but would flee as before Satan from a group of Moslem boys. In the Islamic Republic of Iran, the dog is still a particular object of Muslim hatred. In Tehran an Islamic judge sentenced a 70 year old man to four months in jail and thirty lashes
[osint] Infiltration? Taliban attacks in Kabul raise questions
Standard Muslim terrorist procedure.Happening now in the US and all over the world. B http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44505319/ns/world_news-christian_science_monitor /#.Tm-2B-wrWRU Infiltration? Taliban attacks in Kabul raise questions Proximity to US embassy in city's most secure zone shows 'great deal of penetration' Image: Smoke rises from buildings during an on-going attack in Kabul Daud Yardost / AFP - Getty Images Smoke rises from buildings during an attack in the Kabul city center on Tuesday. The Taliban launched a major attack in the center of Kabul, hitting NATO's coalition force headquarters next to the US embassy in the Afghan capital. By Zubair Babakarkhail and Ben Arnoldy http://www.csmonitor.com/About/Contact Christian Science Monitor updated 36 minutes ago Kabul, Afghanistan; and New Delhi http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2where1=Kabul,%20Afghanistan;%20and%20New%20De lhisty=hform=msdate - Gunmen stormed a high-rise building under construction in the Afghan capital Tuesday afternoon, raining rockets and small-arms fire on the nearby US http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/tags/topic/United+States embassy and homes of the elite. Other fighters raided an Afghan Border Police http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/tags/topic/Afghan+Border+Police base across town. Fighting continues several hours later, but initial reports indicate no embassy or NATO http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/tags/topic/NATO staff have been wounded, while six Afghans have been killed and 15 more injured. Story: Taliban attacks US Embassy, NATO and government buildings in Kabul http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44498306/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/t /taliban-attacks-us-embassy-nato-government-buildings-kabul/ Insurgents have targeted Kabul http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/tags/topic/Kabul landmarks before, but this attack's proximity to the city's most secure zone further undermines confidence in the government's ability to take over security from withdrawing international forces. In particular, the attack raises questions about Taliban http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/tags/topic/The+Taliban infiltration into the ranks of even the most sensitive forces. We've suspected for quite awhile that the Taliban have deeply penetrated the Afghan security forces . but to be able to do this in this secure zone shows a great deal of penetration, says Kamran Bokhari http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/tags/topic/Kamran+Bokhari , an analyst with Stratfor, a Texas http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/tags/topic/Texas -based intelligence analysis firm. He says the intent of an attack like this is to sow seeds of mistrust. It becomes more and more difficult for international forces to trust their Afghan counterparts. Image: building which is occupied by militants Musadeq Sadeq / AP The unfinished building in Kabul where Taliban insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles at the U.S. embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of the Afghan capital on Tuesday. The attack began in the early afternoon with an unknown number of fighters taking over a partially constructed high-rise building about 300 meters from the US embassy. Intended to be a shopping mall, the roughly 14-story building is mostly just cement without windows or doors. A small school bus parked along a nearby road appeared heavily damaged, with children's book bags still in the backseats. Nearby, shopkeeper Abdul Wasi http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/tags/topic/Abdul+Wasi says the school minivan was fleeing the fighting in the area packed with kids. He heard a blast followed by the shattering of glass, but when he reached the bus he didn't see any children injured. Story: Pentagon: Insurgent group behind Afghan bombing http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44489596/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/t /pentagon-insurgent-group-behind-afghan-bombing/ All the time we feel in danger, says Mr. Wasi. How come the Taliban can get into a building during the day when everyone can see them bringing their weapons? The security forces are sleeping and are not putting attention to this bad situation in Kabul. Other Afghans echo his frustration. Fouzia Jahani http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/tags/topic/Fouzia+Jahani , a woman who works in a nearby government ministry, spoke hurriedly as she rushed home to soothe her worried family. We are fed up with this kind of situation in Kabul. In all my life I've seen this kind of situation in Kabul. May Allah help us to get rid of this, she says. In the premier neighborhood of http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/tags/topic/Wazir+Akbar+Khan Wazir Akbar Khan, which abuts the US embassy, wealthy families crammed into cars and fled. Security forces shut many of the roads around the capital, however, forcing large numbers of people to evacuate offices and homes on foot. For me, I've grown up in such
[osint] New al-Qaeda Tape Praises Arab Spring
Of course, this has been a Muslim terror plot from the beginning - no wonder Obama and the Left supported it so wholeheartedly! B http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/restofasia/New-al-Qaeda-tape-praise s-Arab-Spring/Article1-745345.aspx New al Qaeda tape praises Arab Spring Reuters Dubai, September 13, 2011 First Published: 23:51 IST(13/9/2011) Last Updated: 23:53 IST(13/9/2011) New al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri voiced support in an Internet video for popular revolts sweeping the West Asia, saying Arabs were no longer afraid of the United States, 10 years after the country was targeted by the militant network. Ten years have passed since the blessed attacks on New York and Washington and Pennsylvania: that mighty event which shook and continues to shake the pillars of the global crusade, Zawahri said in the video posted on Islamist websites to mark the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Zawahri, an Egyptian who took up the reins of al Qaeda after the killing of Osama bin Laden in June, hailed popular uprisings that have toppled leaders in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya this year, and urged other Muslims to overthrow their own rulers. In the hour-long recording, titled The Dawn of Imminent Victory, also included a message from bin Laden, which Zawahri said was being aired for the first time. The exact date of the clip was not clear. In it, bin Laden warned Americans of the tyranny of capitalism and big corporations, which he said were a main cause of war and had brought the United States to the brink of bankruptcy. He did not mention the Arab Spring. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Twitter's Hands-Off Approach to Tweeted Terrorism
http://news.yahoo.com/twitters-hands-off-approach-tweeted-terrorism-16162658 2.html Twitter's Hands-Off Approach to Tweeted Terrorism By Adam Clark Estes | The Atlantic Wire - 3 hrs ago On Friday, hackers broke into the main Twitter account for NBC News and reported http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/09/nbc-newss-twitter-account -quickly-pulled-after-911-hack/42314/ a terrorist attack on Ground Zero. Twitter acted fast, pulling the accounts of NBC and the Script Kiddies, the LulzSec-lookalikes that took credit for the attack, but the tweet stirred some anxiety in the days before the tenth anniversary of 9/11. This is hardly the first time http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/07/fox-news-twitter-hacked-a nnounces-obama-killed-iowa/39553/ that rogue tweets have stirred fear, and Twitter is drawing an increasing amount of scrutiny http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/08/twitter-braces-censorship-fol lowing-uk-riots/41127/ for the potential dangers of people using the service to incite violence. There are also new details about how the NBC News account was hacked in the first place (hint: don't click on mysterious files that strange emailers send you). All in all, though, the burgeoning social media company has not always been so quick to address the misinformation. Twitter is a boon for free speech around the world, but considering the security problems, it's also struggling with the consequences of free speech left unchecked. The NBC News breach could've happened to anyone. MSNBC reports http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44464766/ns/us_news-security/#.Tm3lM7_i4X0 that Ryan Osborne, NBC's director of social media, received some suspicious emails in the days before the attack and, probably out of simple curiosity, opened an attachment that might have infected his computer with a Trojan horse. Once installed, this type of spyware can nab passwords by recording keyboard strokes. With a stolen password from Osborne, all the Script Kiddies would have been able to take control of the account and tweet about terrorism or anything else they liked. The F.B.I. is meanwhile investigating the hack, but a government official told MSNBC, The truth is it's relatively easy to get into these accounts. Twitter doesn't exactly deflect the blame, it's certainly not shouldering the responsibility for security breaches. We reached out to Twitter to ask how the company protects its users, especially news outlets with large followings, against security breaches. Twitter spokesperson Lynn Fox told The Atlantic Wire that it doesn't comment on individual user accounts and directed us to an official blog post on Keeping your account safe http://blog.twitter.com/2011/07/keeping-your-account-safe.html . We then asked in an email if it would be safe to say that Twitter entrusts the security of individual accounts to the users who own the accounts. I wouldn't say that, Fox replied and directed us to the last paragraph of that same blog post, that points to Twitter's account security help page and an excellent safety and security checklist http://media.twitter.com/newsrooms/security , which gives some good tips for users but says nothing about what the company does to prevent malevolent uses of accounts. The company has been similarly dismissive about a recent flare-up of criticism over the misuse of Twitter in the London riots and violence in Mexico. Last week, news emerged about two Twitter terrorists who sent out false reports about attacks on a school in the Mexican city of Veracruz now face 30 years in prison http://articles.cnn.com/2011-09-07/world/mexico.twitter.analysts_1_social-m edia-twitter-and-facebook-twitter-post/3?_s=PM:WORLD . When we asked, Twitter would not comment on the specifics of that case. Our users' ability to express themselves is important to us and that freedom of expression is recognized internationally as a fundamental human right, Twitter said in a statement. Our users' ability to express themselves is important to us and that freedom of expression is recognized internationally as a fundamental human right. Of course, we neither condone nor allow illegal content on Twitter and we evaluate reports on accounts that may violate our Terms of Service. That leaves a difficult problem, because it's a very new one. Societies around the world are struggling to cope with the powerful effects of Twitter and other social media. However, it's a process of trial and error to determine exactly how Twitter ought to improve their service and at which point governments should intervene with regulation. In the United States, the First Amendment is guiding dogma, but in countries like Britain, governments have threatened http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/08/twitter-braces-censorship-fol lowing-uk-riots/41127/ to censor social media in times of crisis. Does Twitter have a security problem? Probably, but it's not as bad as it used to be
[osint] Norway Court to Allow Media at Terrorist's Hearing
Why not? B http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1662697.php/Norwa y-court-to-allow-media-at-terrorism-suspect-s-hearing Norway court to allow media at terrorism suspect's hearing Sep 13, 2011, 13:19 GMT Oslo - A Norwegian court Monday rejected a police request that the pending custody hearing for the man accused of the twin attacks that killed 77 people in July be held behind closed doors. Anders Behring Breivik was due to appear in court on September 19. But the police want to extend his custody by a further eight weeks, with four weeks in solitary confinement. At previous hearings, the police were granted requests for closed-door sessions, since they could not rule out that Breivik might have had accomplices. The Oslo district court said those decisions were an exception. The police said they would likely appeal Monday's ruling. At the pending custody hearing, media representatives, survivors, next of kin and attorneys representing victims of the attacks were to be allowed to follow the proceedings but were to be issued with gag orders, the court said. It said that the hearing on extending Breivik's remand would be a 'brief' session and it was unlikely that new information concerning the case would emerge. Attorneys representing next of kin consulted by the court said they wanted a closed-door hearing. Police say that Breivik admitted to detonating a car bomb that killed eight people in central Oslo and a shooting that claimed 69 lives at a youth camp organized by the Labour Party. His attorney Geri Lippestad welcomed the ruling saying 'this is what we have argued for.' 'This is in line with Norwegian legal tradition and an important legal principle,' Lippestad told news agency NTB. cid:part1.00020509.08010800@yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] RATIONALIZING PEDOPHILIA IN ISLAM
RATIONALIZING PEDOPHILIA IN ISLAM by Raymond Ibrahim Earlier this month we saw - or rather, were once again reminded - that Islam permits pedophilia in the guise of marriage: Top Saudi cleric, Dr. Salih bin Fawzan,[1] issued a fatwa asserting that there is no minimum age for girls to marry, even if they are in the cradle, and that the only criterion is that they are capable of being placed beneath and bearing the weight of the men. While this practice speaks for itself, it is interesting to witness the great lengths some Muslims go to justify or rationalize it - or even to turn it into a source of pride. Consider, for example, this Muslim cleric[2] discussing Muhammad's marriage to the child Aisha when she was nine. Far from blushing for shame, the cleric actually uses this anecdote to boast of the prophet's patience and magnanimity. Translation of relevant excerpt follows: The story of the prophet's marriage to Aisha reveals to us aspects like the prophet's conduct with Aisha, and more importantly the aspect regarding the relationship between the husband and wife, to show how one should treat his wife, just as the prophet did with Aisha. We know that Asia's mother went to take her down from the swing that she was playing on to fix her hair and prepare her for the prophet so he could enter her [have sex with her] - and she did that all on the same day. Aisha's own account in Sahih Bukhari[3] is telling enough: she talks about how her mother hurriedly prepared her and then handed her over to Muhammad, and how nothing surprised me but the coming of Allah's Apostle to me in the forenoon. The cleric continues: So you see, she was playing with her fellow playmates even though her day of consummation was that very same day - and all that they did was to fix her up for the prophet so he could have sex with her. Now what do we see when the prophet married Aisha? Did he go to her and say Okay that's it, you're married, you're now a grown up, you're supposed to be mature, you need to do this and that; you need to forget about your toys and your little friends; you are now a wife of a man, you have to see to my needs and that's it? No. The prophet allowed her to continue playing with her toy dolls - indeed, the prophet even sometimes gave her such things to play with. [This hadith has more details, including how Aisha's little girl friends would hide themselves whenever the prophet came to her until he called them out.] It should be noted that the cleric recounted the above with much awe and amazement - as if to say, Look how indulgent and open-minded our prophet was! In fact, such was the cleric's whole point: to show that Islam, according to the example of Muhammad, expects older Muslim husbands to be patient with their younger wives: The older husband should not expect the younger wife to be at his level of maturity; rather, he should go down to her level, for he is capable, whereas she is not. As gentlemanly as this ostensibly sounds, it is yet another example of how Muslim scholars deal with Muhammad's lifestyle: because they cannot condemn or ignore his practices, they inevitably go to great lengths to rationalize or justify them - to find the good in every situation their prophet was involved in, while being oblivious to all the bad. Thus here we have a cleric straining to finding a positive aspect to Muhammad's pedophilia - that he was patient and indulgent of his child-bride - while ignoring the heart of it: that the man Islam is built around desired to have sex with a child in the first place. Footnotes [1] http://www.raymondibrahim.com http://www.raymondibrahim.com/ /9956/new-saudi-fatwa-defends-pedophilia- as-marriage [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =khSUbdc0qXMfeature=player_embedded# at=211 [3] http://www.usc.edu/schools/ college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/ muslim/hadith/bukhari/ 062.sbt.html#007.062.090 Contact Raymond Ibrahim at l...@pundicity.com. This article was submitted July 29, 2011 and is archived at http://www.raymondibrahim.com/ 10011/rationalizing-pedophilia-in-islam For additional information, see also another version of this essay http://www.think-israel.org/jul11bloged.html#jul11.103 here. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included
[osint] As American As Apple Pie: How Anwar al-Awlaki Became the Face of Western Jihad
Al-Awlaki and any Muslim is no more American than the phony prophert mohamed. B As American As Apple Pie: How Anwar al-Awlaki Became the Face of Western Jihad ICSR is pleased to announce the release of its newest report, As American As Apple Pie: How Anwar al-Awlaki Became the Face of Western Jihad, by Research Fellow Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens. This study provides the first forensic analysis of Anwar al-Awlaki's work, which tracks his ideological path from a supposedly moderate preacher to an al-Qaeda recruiter. Download this paper http://icsr.info/publications/papers/1315827595ICSRPaperAsAmericanAsApplePi eHowAnwaralAwlakiBecametheFaceofWesternJihad.pdf http://icsr.info/publications/papers/1315827595ICSRPaperAsAmericanAsApplePie HowAnwaralAwlakiBecametheFaceofWesternJihad.pdf Contents Foreword 2 Letter of Support from START 3 Glossary of Terms 4 Executive Summary 6 Chapter 1 Introduction 9 Chapter 2 Methodology and Key Concepts 13Social Movement Theory 13Framing and Frame Analysis 14Frame Alignment 16Boundary Activation 17Al Wala' Wal Bara' 17 The Fluidity of Salafi and Islamist Thought 20 Chapter 3 Background 25United States 25United Kingdom 27Yemen 29 Chapter 4 Awlaki's and the Ikhwan in the United States and United Kingdom 33Tolerance: A Hallmark of Muslim Character 35The Life of the Prophet: The Makkan Period 38It's a War on Islam 40Lessons from the Companions: Living as a Minority 43Stop Police Terror 44The Life and Times of Umar bin Khattab 47 Chapter 5 Awlaki, Salafi-Jihadi Ideology and al-Qaeda 53 The Book of Jihad 53Constants on the Path of Jihad 55The Dust Will Never Settle Down 67Anwar al-Awlaki's Blog 6944 Ways to Support Jihad 72Post 2009 Output 75 Chapter 6 Conclusion 79 Appendix 83 http://icsr.info/paper/as-american-as-apple-pie-how-anwar-al-awlaki-became-t he-face-of-western-jihad [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] E-Verify 'Flags' Obama's Social Security Number System: Determines it 'Likely Fraudulent'
E-Verify 'flags' Obama's Social Security Number System crunches prez's data, determines 'likely fraudulent' http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-1265756.html#1265756 Posted: September 12, 2011 8:14 pm Eastern By Jerome R. Corsi C 2011 WND A private investigation reveals that the Social Security Number being used by Barack Obama does not pass a check with E-Verify, the electronic system the U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has created to verify whether or not prospective employees have the required authorization to work legally in the United States. Over the past few years, the E-Verify system has received national attention because of its ability to determine if prospective employees are illegal immigrants who have entered the United States without the legal authority to work. By flagging fraudulent documents, including faked Social Security Numbers, the E-Verify system can assist an employer in the effort to make sure all prospective hires have authentic identification papers, including valid Social Security Numbers, issued to them and not to someone else. Now WND has obtained a copy of an affidavit from Linda Jordan, a private citizen who entered Obama's Social Security Number into the Self Check section of the E-Verify website, only to find out that Obama's Social Security Number was flagged by E-Verify as likely being fraudulent. The document: Jordan told WND she is a wife, mother and homemaker. She described herself as an average citizen with reasonable research skills. She said she became concerned when she realized that Congress was not willing to investigate issues concerning Obama's identity, including whether or not he currently is using a fraudulent Social Security Number, and that federal law enforcement authorities also were doing nothing. Between October 2008 and May 2011, I submitted several requests to agencies and people with the legal responsibility and authority to investigate the use of forged documents and election fraud, concerning Obama's birth records and Social Security Number, she stated in her affidavit. To date no one with the legal responsibility and authority has responded to any of these requests. Jordan told WND she finally decided to investigate Obama on her own initiative. I did my own research and I found allegations that Obama was using a fraudulent Social Security Number and that his birth certificate had been forged were more than credible, she said. Then I saw many brave people putting their reputations on the line to get the truth concerning Obama, including military officers like Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, and I decided I could no longer just sit back and watch. Jordan finally decided to take matters in her own hand. I considered myself to be one of the employers of the president of the United States, she said, so I decided to sign up for E-Verify and see if I could determine whether or not I could find out something about his true identity. In May 2010, WND reported two private investigators working independently were asking why President Obama was using a Social Security Number set aside for applicants in Connecticut while there is no record he ever had a mailing address in that state. In addition, the records indicate the Social Security Number Barack Obama is using was issued between 1977 and 1979, yet Obama's earliest employment reportedly was in 1975 at an ice cream shop in Hawaii. E-Verify reports suspected fraud As seen in Exhibit 1, after Jordan entered Obama's Social Security Number into the E-Verify Self Check, the system indicated Obama's Social Security Number produced a mismatch that warranted a visit to the Social Security Administration to investigate the discrepancy. Exhibit 1, E-Verify notification of 'mismatch' in Obama Social Security Number self check More detailed analysis of Exhibit 1 shows the checked reason for the mismatch notice was: SSA record does not verify. Other reason. SSA found a discrepancy in the record. Exhibit 2 shows a Social Security Online page that indicates the response SSA record does not verify, other reason is to be interpreted as Special indicator present, with the reference to three E-Verify sections. Exhibit 2, Social Security Online page explaining response SSA record does not verify, other reason. Further research revealed that the SSA adds Special Indicator codes to identify Social Security Numbers that individuals obtained fraudulently. According to an audit report authored by the Office of the Inspector General, Social Security Administration, titled Effectiveness of Special Indicator Codes on the Social Security Administrations Numident File, dated August 2008, there were 9 special indicator codes as of November 2008: False Identity Noncitizen Not in Status Multiple SSNs with Different Identities Scrambled Earnings with New SSN Assigned SSN Obtained Using Fraudulent Documentation SSN Assignment
[osint] The Emerging Crises in the Middle East
Hardly emerging . same old, same old. B http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yesid=46167 id=46167 The Emerging Crises in the Middle East by Newt Gingrich http://www.humanevents.com/search.php?author_name=Newt+Gingrich http://www.humanevents.com/search.php?author_name=Newt+Gingrich (more by this author) Posted 09/14/2011 ET http://www.humanevents.com/images/EgyptRiots8.jpg While Americans have been focused on the economy and domestic politics, the Middle East has been deteriorating in very threatening ways. In the last few months, events have begun to turn against the United States, Israel, and freedom in the Middle East. If you want to share this big-picture overview of threats in the region with your friends, there are buttons at the top of this message. Consider the following developments: 1. The Iranians are on offense in Iraq and the United States is losing ground. The radical cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, has called for his followers to stop killing Americans on the grounds that it could delay our departure, but warned that if our troops do not leave by the end of the year, his attacks will resume. American military leaders have publicly testified that Iranians are providing equipment, training, and intelligence to help kill Americans. Yet nothing is being done to stop Iran. 2. The Obama Administration's decision to reduce the American military presence in Iraq to 3,000 creates the potential for a catastrophic disaster. Since the Army deploys in brigades of 5,000, splitting up a brigade can only signify a political calculation. Yet a small American military force will not be able to defend itself. The Obama Administration is creating a tempting target for the Iranian radicals to see if they can humiliate us. It would be much safer to pull all the troops out than to leave so few that they are in peril. 3. The American Embassy in Baghdad is an absurdity. It was designed when we were on the way to being the dominant power in Iraq. It covers too much space, has too much staff, and requires 3,650 people to defend it on a billion dollar contract (while thousands more work inside). Sustaining something on this scale is going to be very expensive and yield no results of comparable value. This embassy should be closed and a very modest and defensible building should replace it. 4. The Turkish government has become increasingly Islamist in its language and policies and is rapidly reversing the 90 year legacy of Ataturk's efforts to create a modern, open Turkey. The Turkish flotilla to Gaza last year was so clearly in violation of international law that even the United Nations has said Israel was right and Turkey was wrong. This enraged the Turkish government, and it is threatening to send a new flotilla to Gaza defended by Turkish warships. This could lead to a Turkish-Israeli confrontation that could be very dangerous. 5. The Iranians announced Monday that their first nuclear reactor was going on line in a public demonstration of their determination to become a nuclear power. 6. Bashar al-Assad, the dictator of Syria and ally of Iran, continues to kill his own people with Iranian help. While some pro-American governments have fallen, pro-Iranian dictators are being sustained. 7. Egyptian radicals are building pressure for a diplomatic break with Israel, ending the 33 year peace process which has made the region more stable and less dangerous. Mob attacks on the Israeli Embassy in Cairo are an indicator of the potential hostility which could explode and reshape the region. 8. As I wrote over a month ago http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45412 , the United Nations General Assembly is on the verge of recognizing a Palestinian state in a unilateral step which will embolden the radicals and put Israel in greater danger. Meanwhile even the moderate Palestinians indicate this is not a step toward peace but merely an interim step in Palestinian statehood forced on Israel. Chuck DeVore, who served as a Reagan appointee in the Pentagon and is an expert on foreign affairs, has written a special report on the situation in the Middle East and threats to Israel's survival. You can read it here http://www.humanevents.com/offers/offer.php?id=SRME013 . Despite all of these events, there is no evidence the Obama Administration has any idea how dangerous the world is becoming, or that it has a plan to deal with them. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material
[osint] Left Joins Muslim Allies: Alleges Vatican Crimes Against Humanity - Vatican Remains Clueless
Left Alleges Vatican Crimes Against Humanity Posted By Joseph Klein On September 14, 2011 The Center for Constitutional Rights, a far-left advocacy group for Islamic terrorists, has now chosen to go after the Catholic Church. It is bringing a complaint on behalf of an organization known as the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The intent is to press for an investigation of Pope Benedict XVI and top Vatican cardinals for alleged crimes against humanity. The Center accuses the Catholic Church of a long-standing and pervasive system of sexual violence. Like just about everything else the Center for Constitutional Rights does, it is engaging in pure political grandstanding to embarrass a traditional organization that does immense good in the world. In a Church of over one billion members, the percentage of abuse cases is infinitesimal, and most of these are old closed cases. That is not to excuse the abuses that did happen, as the Church itself has recognized. But to accuse the Pope and cardinals of crimes against humanity evidences an anti-Catholic bias that, for lack of a better term, constitutes Catholic-phobia. It is highly doubtful that the ICC will take this case, for a number of reasons. First, the ICC does not investigate crimes that occurred before its 2002 creation, which was when the bulk of the molestation claims originated. Second, national courts with jurisdiction are already addressing the issues raised by the alleged sexual abuses, which normally would be enough to deter the ICC from intervening, since it was established as a court of last resort. Third, the ICC does not usually get involved in this type of case. This requires a government policy, a plan, a widespread and systematic attack against a civilian population, the executive director of the International Bar Association, Mark Ellis, said. Not to suggest that victims were not harmed, but to meet the level of crimes against humanity you really have to show that there is a policy or a plan to initiate this. Fourth, and most importantly, it is difficult to conceive that the ICC would choose to expend whatever political capital it may have to go after the Pope, particularly for simply not being attentive enough to what was happening before he even became the Pope. If the Center for Constitutional Rights were truly concerned about a gross pattern of sexual abuse, it would be looking at Sharia-governed countries such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Iran where flagrant crimes against humanity are pervasive. Women and girls today are being sexually abused, mutilated and killed with impunity in the Muslim world under the cover of Sharia law, without any judicial recourse. One of the most revered Muslim theologians of all time, Imam al-Ghazali (1058-), defined marriage in words that justify such abuse: Marriage is a form of slavery. The woman is mans slave, and her duty therefore is absolute obedience to the husband in all that he asks of her person. Consider just a few examples of the sexual abuse and degradation suffered by females living under the yoke of Sharia law today: http://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=1997893afsid=1 Your Ad Here The husband is free to beat any of his wives (he is allowed up to four wives) if they are disobedient. The husband can divorce his wives at will, but the wives are essentially stuck in loveless marriages at the pleasure of the husband they share. The wives shared husband is also favored in cases of custody of the children after the early years of childhood are over. Men are granted the privilege to seek sexual gratification with children. Even disregarding female genital mutilation, sexual slavery and honor killings, which still occur in parts of the Islam world, Islamic law stipulates a gender-segregated, patriarchal society in which women are treated as inferior beings and regularly abused. But the Center for Constitutional Rights ignores a truly long-standing and pervasive system of sexual violence and goes after the Catholic Church instead. This should come as no surprise. The Center regularly advocates for Islamic terrorist detainees. As it boasts on its website: CCRs advocacy on behalf of Guantánamo detainees spans district and appellate court litigation, international advocacy, resettlement assistance, and legislative and media advocacy to secure the best possible resolution for our clients. The Center laments the fact that the United States has refused to allow any of these detainees to be released onto U.S. territory. The Center also supports the so-called Gaza Freedom Flotilla, which even a recent United Nations report said acted recklessly in attempting to breach the naval blockade that had been imposed lawfully by Israel. As its latest attack against the Catholic church illustrates, the Center for Constitutional Rights shares with the Islamist extremists it represents a
[osint] EU Slams Turkey: Time to Remove Islamic Mole from NATO?
09/14/2011 01:01 PM Erdogan's 'Dangerous Macho Posturing' EU Politicians Slam Turkey's Anti-Israel Course By Annett Meiritz http://www.spiegel.de/extra/0,1518,632073,00.html Turkey's prime minister is keen to position himself as a leader in efforts to rebuild the Arab world. At the same time, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has grown aggressive in his verbal attacks on Israel. European Union politicians are now criticizing the Turkish leader, calling for a more moderate tone. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not only using his tour of several Arab states for self-promotion, but for verbal attacks against Israel as well. No one can play with Turkey or Turkish honor, Erdogan said in Cairo on Tuesday. Israel lost Turkey as a strategic partner after the Israeli military attack on the humanitarian aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip in May 2010. During the Arab Spring, Erdogan has presented himself as a new power, a model leader and a rising star with near pop-star status in the region, as the New York Times has described the Turkish leader. His multi-day trip to Egypt, Tunisia and Libya is meant to strengthen his role in the region. However, Erdogan has also linked his solidarity with the Arab world to a strident anti-Israel foreign policy. Indeed, the political battle lines between Turkey and Israel have been intensifying in recent weeks: * Erdogan expelled senior Israeli diplomats in early September. If the tension between the two countries wasn't thick enough already, this step only served to escalate the dispute between them. * Ankara halted its military cooperation with Israel and announced an increased Turkish military presence in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. All trade ties with Israel are currently frozen and Erdogan is threatening further sanctions. * At the same time, Erdogan is presenting himself more and more as an advocate for the Palestinians. More than once, he has vociferously considered visiting the Gaza Strip, a move Israel would regard as an affront. * Erdogan doesn't shy away from verbal attacks, either. On Monday, he said Israel had behaved like a spoiled child and accused Israel of supporting state terror. He described Israel's military action http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,698115,00.html against last year's flotilla to Gaza as a cause for war. The conflict could also put Ankara's relationship with the European Union to the test. The dispute over the deadly military raid on the Gaza flotilla, which left nine Turkish activists dead, could grow into a diplomatic crisis between Turkey and the EU. Indeed, among high-profile politicians in the European Parliament, criticism of Erdogan is growing. 'Anti-Western Sentiment' Elmar Brok, the foreign policy spokesman for the parliamentary group of the conservative Christian Democrats in the European Parliament, said he is skeptical of Turkey's efforts to establish itself as a regional power within the Arab world. He said Erdogan is seeking to transform it into a regional power similar to the status it held earlier with the Ottoman Empire. He said Ankara isn't pursuing the goal of EU membership and that it is using the conflict with Israel in order to gain credibility in the region, Brok told SPIEGEL ONLINE. Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, a member of the European Parliament with the business-friendly Free Democratic Party (FDP) said he also viewed the shift in foreign policy course by the Turkish government as a sign that Ankara's EU ambitions are waning. Turkey, as a secular democracy, may be a role model for the countries currently undergoing a phase of transformation, the FDP party group leader in Brussels told SPIEGEL ONLINE, but Ankara can in no way be allowed to link the reorientation of its foreign policy with anti-Western sentiment. Lamsbdorff has accused the Erdogan government of using gunboat rhetoric in its statements about Israel. The Turkish government's aggressive policy course against Israel, he said, shows that the country currently has no interest in pushing forward EU accession talks. With a strident anti-Israel course, it isn't making any friends in Europe right now, Lambsdorff said. With his pro-Palestinian course, Erdogan is in fact risking a conflict with the West. The Turkish prime minister plans to support the Palestinian initiative at the United Nations General Assembly to announce unilateral independence, a move both the United States and Germany have said they would oppose. On Tuesday, US President Barack Obama said his government would veto any Palestinian petition for full membership submitted to the Security Council. During his visit to Cairo on Tuesday, Erdogan said the international recognition of a Palestinian state is not an option but an obligation. 'Deeply Injured' At present, there is no common EU foreign policy position on the Palestinian initiative in the UN Security Council. Fundamental supporters of Turkey's EU membership are still standing
[osint] Iran's Favorite US Propagandist
The Problem with Roger Cohen Posted By Ari Lieberman On September 14, 2011 Roger Cohen is a curious sort. His weekly columns obsessively spew forth hateful anti-Israel rhetoric while professing accolades for those stalwarts of democracy in Iran and Turkey. In the make-believe world of Roger Cohen, the Jews of Iran are in Utopia http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/opinion/22iht-edcohen.3.20350579.html , living, working and worshiping in relative tranquility, and Israel is obsessively paranoid over Iran's nuclear program, which he dismisses http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/opinion/14iht-edcohen14.html?_r=1 as the nuclear bogeyman obsession. Cohen is so in tune with the party line that even Iran's theocratic mullahs have taken a liking to him, republishing http://old.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=189975 at least one of his articles in their propaganda apparatus, the Tehran Times. He has since backtracked somewhat on the Iranians, having witnessed their brutality following Ahmadinejad's theft of the country's fraudulent elections, but his vitriol against the Jewish state is ever increasing and is matched only by his propensity to engage in sensationalist, and often times misleading, rhetoric. Take for example Cohen's recent article, Israel Isolates Itself, in which he calls on Israel to apologize to Islamist Turkey for actions against the Mavi Marmara and bemoans the loss of Furkan Dogan, a 19-year old U.S. citizen and aspiring doctor from upstate New York. Cohen's misleading description of Dogan conjures up images of a freckled face, bespectacled Norman Rockwell archetype dressed in the requisite graduation cap and gown. What Cohen cleverly omits is Dogan's journal entries where he professes to dream of martyrdom. Also omitted is the fact that though Dogan was fortuitously born in the U.S., he was born of Turkish parents and lived in Turkey for nearly his entire life, having moved there at the age of two. Dogan was a U.S. citizen on paper only. In every other respect, he was a radicalized Turkish Islamist who sought martyrdom. Dogan knew what he was getting into when he joined his fundamentalist IHH mercenary cohorts. If he was not among those who cheered when IHH and other assorted Islamist demagogues lectured on the evils of the Zionist entity, he was certainly within earshot of those lectures. Make no mistake, Dogan was neither freedom fighter nor humanitarian, and he was likely part of a well-organized group of thugs armed with machetes, daggers, metal bars and other assorted goodies that violently attacked a group of Israelis who boarded the Mavi Marmara with nothing more than paintball guns. As with all Israel haters, Cohen is very adept at driving a wedge between Americans and their only stable, democratic ally in the Middle East - Israel. And there's no better way to do that than by claiming (falsely) that Israelis kill innocent Americans. For over 40 years, the David Duke types have been pushing the asinine and fringe conspiracy theory that in 1967 the U.S.S. Liberty was deliberately set upon by Israeli forces with premeditation and intent to kill Americans. More recently, they've focused their efforts on the 9/11 attacks, claiming that Jews were warned to stay away from the World Trade Center by the Mossad, Israel's intelligence service. Now, Cohen attempts to place a new spin on this age-worn anti-Semitic canard by claiming that Dogan was executed by Israeli soldiers, or in his own nebulous words: something close to being executed. Cohen notes further that the panel set forth a recommendation that Israel issue 'an appropriate statement of regret' on the incident. He then takes a sudden leap, asserting, Yes, Israel, increasingly isolated, should do just that. An apology is the right course and the smart course. Did I miss something here? How did we jump from an appropriate statement of regret to an apology? The Palmer Report, which upheld the legality of Israel's blockade and laid much of the blame for the debacle on Turkey and its affiliate, the IHH, called on Israel to offer a statement of regret. Israel has already accepted the report's findings (with some reservations) and has issued such a statement along with an offer for compensation. The Turks, who rejected the UN-sanctioned report, also rejected Israel's overtures and made clear that they would accept nothing short of a full apology, along with a lifting of the blockade. So much for compromise. But Cohen neglects to mention any of this and stubbornly clings to the party line of bashing Israel no matter the cause or circumstance. That Cohen chooses to side with Turkey's Erdogan, the man who allowed the Mavi Marmara to set sail from Turkey and whose Islamist rhetoric inspired the doomed voyage, speaks volumes of his duplicitous nature. Cohen, the writer-intellectual, chooses to side with an Islamist thug, who, in typical authoritarian fashion, has all but managed to stifle any meaningful dissent in his country, assuming near
[osint] Krugman's Shame
Leftists like Muslims have always been shameless. One needs honor to have shame.Leftists and Muslims have none. Scum. B Krugman's Shame Posted By Rich Trzupek On September 14, 2011 On Sunday, most Americans took the time to reflect on the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that shook the nation to the core. Most Americans honored the victims of that awful day, expressed their gratitude to the young men and women on the front lines of the fight and prayed for peace. Most Americans did those things - but not all, because the tenth anniversary of 9/11 has a much different meaning for those on the Left. Economist Paul Krugman, whose New York Times blog proclaims that he in some way exemplifies The Conscience of a Liberal, used the anniversary to express all of the sneering contempt http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/the-years-of-shame/ that the Left has for the war against terrorism. The post title, The Years of Shame, provides the premise for Krugman's disdainful chastisement, but would better encapsulate the deranged left-wing theatre of the absurd played out during the post-9/11 decade. The conspiracy theories, the cries of no blood for oil, anti-Bush hate parades and admiration for freedom fighters (terrorists), all aspects of the legacy of 9/11 that the Left absolves itself from and is gradually erasing from the historical record. What happened after 9/11 - and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not - was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons. The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. Could we have at least added Michael Moore to the list? Ironically, the atrocity was a unifying event, albeit ever so briefly. For a few weeks after 9/11, Americans were about as unified as they have been at any time since Pearl Harbor. People of all sorts gathered together under the silent skies that followed that terrible day, reflecting on the nature of good and evil and pledging that this horrific crime would not go unpunished. For a moment, political divisions were unimportant, as American pride and determination flared brightly in the nation's soul. It wasn't destined to last. The tragedy of 9/11 did indeed become a wedge issue, but to blame that on the Right, or on heroes like Giuliani and Bush - and exclusively, for that matter - is an absurdly ignorant portrayal of events. The war against terrorists and their supporters had barely begun before the Left's poisonous propaganda machine kicked into gear. That the Left was ever interested in unity after 9/11 is likewise ludicrous - and to hear complaints from a man who refers to Republicans as vile and burned effigies of the Bush administration at his 2008 election night party, is nothing short of surreal. (Indeed, the very petty partisan discord sown by Krugman on such an emotionally painful occasion should disabuse us of the notion that he has any use for unity.) Depending on the day during the previous administration, Bush was either a dupe being manipulated by (fill in the villain of the day) or an evil mastermind. We need no further proof that the Left's outrage was manufactured than the deafening silence that fell over much of that side of the political spectrum after Barack Obama took office. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue. Gitmo is still open. And it even turns out that civilian trials for terrorists really are a bad idea. There is no shame in the way that America has taken the war to the enemy, but there is plenty of shame in the way those efforts were so vigorously undermined. Krugman, like most of his like-minded peers, links 9/11 to the Second War in Iraq, though the two have almost nothing to do with each other. The specter of a murderous megalomaniac like Hussein in possession of weapons of mass destruction (which both Democrats and Republicans presumed was the case on the basis of the same intelligence) hardly required any embellishment to push the West into action. But Iraq, too, became part of the Left's all-encompassing 9/11 paranoia. If only the blood for oil mantra had been based on anything but opportunistic demagoguery, the experience at the gas pump might be marginally more pleasant today. The fact is that America did in Iraq what it always does - what it did in Japan and Germany and the Philippines, and so many other places around the world: we came, we saw, we conquered, and then we worked to turn everything back over to the people who lived there. The idea that we fight wars to enhance our own prosperity is especially vexing when one considers all of the home-grown resources, particularly fossil fuels, we deliberately starve ourselves of.
[osint] America's Muslim POTUS Calls the 9/11 Attacks 'an Act of God'
http://sheikyermami.com/2011/09/13/the-muslim-potus-calls-the-911-attacks-an -act-of-god/ America's Muslim POTUS Calls the 9/11 Attacks 'an Act of God' by sheikyermami on September 13, 2011 He should have said 'Allah', to remove the last bit of doubt. Very strange, indeed, Obama reading from the Bible, after religious leaders were banned from the ceremonies. Obama reads Biblical passage at 9/11 ceremonies implying that 9/11 was an act of God http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/09/obama-reads-biblical-passage-at-911-cerem onies-implying-that-911-was-an-act-of-god.html Obama reads Psalm 46, including verse 8: Come, behold the works of the LORD, how he has wrought desolations in the earth. The only people who think that 9/11 was an act of the Supreme Being wreaking desolations on the earth are.Islamic jihadists. So why did Barack Obama pick this psalm out of 150 psalms, and out of innumerable appropriate Biblical passages, to read at the 9/11 ceremonies? 9/11, after all, was a day when there were indeed wrought desolations on the earth. Did Obama really mean to say that God did it, that it was an act of divine judgment, rather than a monstrous and unmitigated evil? Or is this just another one of those funny coincidences, of which there are so very, very many when it comes to Barack Hussein Obama and his remarkable, unqualified and obvious affinity for Islam? Suicidal Stupidity Official ceremonies commemorating 9/11 Islamic jihad attack scrupulously avoid mentioning Islamic jihad http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/09/official-ceremonies-commemorating-911-isl amic-jihad-attack-scrupulously-avoid-mentioning-islamic-jih.html As expected, the official ceremonies yesterday were a politically correct charade that avoided any mention of who attacked us or why. Imagine a Pearl Harbor observance held while the war was still going on that avoided any mention of the Japanese Empire. And that ceremony was staged by those who hold all the political power in this country - exposing yet again the fact that during a war, we are governed by people who do not understand the war we are in, steadfastly refuse to learn anything about it, and persist in pursuing fantasy-based policies that, if not abandoned, will ultimately lead to our destruction. Update: * Sultan Knish: http://www.eurasiareview.com/13092011-the-wages-of-terror-oped/ It doesn't matter anymore if it's flood victims, outer space or national parks- it's all about Muslims. (Must read) Meanwhile, we held our people's rally yesterday before a huge crowd that managed to get through the numerous police roadblocks. Police were turning people away, but patriots still turned up and heard the truth at our 9/11 Freedom Rally. I'll have a full report as soon as I can get pictures at the proper size - probably later on tonight or tomorrow morning. Islam Expunged from the 9/11 Memorial Services, by Amiel Ungar for Israel National News http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147767#.Tm4LU09vAjw , September 12 (thanks to Twostellas): The ceremony at of [sic] Ground Zero today mixed commemoration and mourning. In the effort to produce an observance that could provide unity and bring the disparate figures of George W. Bush and Barack Obama together. it steered clear of the different appraisals surrounding the event.The elephant in the room, radical Islam and its broader support base went almost unmentioned. If anybody brought in the issue of Islam, it was the liberal papers. From reading the Huffington Post one could almost walk away with the assumption that the main victims of 9/11 were American Muslims. In other papers.there was a plethora of opinion pieces on the benign sharia law and jihad as nonviolent struggle. The paradox of America trying to move on and heal while NYPD policemen were checking out vehicles in light of an intelligence tip about three Pakistanis who would enter the United States with the goal of committing a terrorist atrocity, was obvious and disconcerting.. Yes. And suicidally stupid. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties,
[osint] Obama is outclassed and outsmarted by retiring Gen. Petraeus
Obama is outclassed and outsmarted by Mickey Mouse and/or Goofy. B Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis! - Original Message - From: Mike Just one more example of the smallness of our petty, conniving, simple-minded, outclassed president. Obama is outclassed and outsmarted by retiring Gen. Petraeus. Gen. David H. Petraeus closed his phenomenal 37-year Army career this week with a joint review at Fort Myer in Arlington. Service members from every branch were present, and flags of all 50 states fluttered in the breeze. A substantial crowd had come to hear the general's farewell address. Many were classmates from the West Point Class of 1974, smartly attired but enthusiastic and occasionally whooping like they were cadets. Others were people with whom he had served over his storied career, whom he recognized from the dais during his speech. The morning was sunny and clear, and the general was his usual affable, ebullient self. In his remarks, Gen. Petraeus recalled the days when he entered the military, when the Vietnam War was winding down and the armed services were being pared down to the hollow forces of the 1970s. The Army I joined as a second lieutenant had suffered enormously, he said. In the wake of our involvement in Vietnam, our Army and much of our military were grappling with a host of very serious challenges. The senior leaders who first wore the uniform in those dark days were not discouraged. They began their careers with a sense of mission. I know I speak for many when I say that we came away from that period vowing to never let our forces get to such a point ever again. Through his efforts, and those of countless other visionaries in and out of uniform, the hollow forces were transformed once again into the finest fighting force in the world. Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presided over the ceremony with William J. Lynn, deputy secretary of defense. Notably absent were Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta, whose former position as CIA director is Gen. Petraeus' next assignment, and President Obama. Their non-appearance did not sit well with some. Obama should have been here, a warrior who served under Gen. Petraeus told The Washington Times. And he should have invited [former President George W.] Bush. The general saved their bacon. Twice. Everyone has forgotten that in 2007 we as a nation had said, 'OK, we are going to lose Iraq.' And President Bush said, 'Well what if we win?' Petraeus rode into town and assembled an extraordinary team. His personal drive, his charisma, his optimism, his can-do spirit, all of that is what gave us hope that we could in fact turn Iraq around, our source explained. And by September of '07, the progress had been dramatic enough that it became common knowledge to the American people that things were turning around in Iraq. Eight months earlier, a lot of people, including Obama, wanted to tuck tail and have another Vietnam. That's not all. Here is the guy who saved our reputation as a nation. Seriously, who's missing this? And then he went to [Central Command] and was doing great things. And Obama asked him to take a functional demotion and go back to Afghanistan and save our bacon again, we were told. To leave his family, to step down from a regional command, to take on that burden. And he said yes, and he did it. Petraeus was the right guy at the right time, he answered the call, and now he's being yanked out before we're ready, just like the troops are being yanked out before Afghanistan is ready. So what's the reason for the White House about-face? They are sending him to the CIA to keep him quiet during the 2012 election. It shows how small and scared they are. He is an honorable man, he has never expressed political ambition. But they saw him as a threat. He is an independent thinker, the finest military mind of his generation, our source posits. What he suffers from is that he is more excellent than almost anyone he meets, to include the president. The troops love him. Strong people surround themselves with the most excellent people they can find, even those brighter and more capable than themselves. Weak people don't. There is a shameful indignity in how this hero was treated. The president couldn't find the time in his schedule, nor could the [defense secretary] find the time to look him in the eye and say thank you in person, this warrior told The Washington Times. It's one thing to say 'we support the troops' and trot out your first lady to do that, but this is where it counts. It would have been an appropriate gesture to come here to recognize the professional and personal sacrifice of this extraordinary man. It would have been the dignified thing to do. The hero remained above it all. The cannons boomed and the crowd cheered and Gen. Petraeus stood smiling in the sun. C Copyright 2011 The Washington Times, LLC. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[osint] Sept. 11 Attacks Less A Seminal Event, Rather An Awakening
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=46132 Sept. 11 Attacks Less A Seminal Event, Rather An Awakening by W. Thomas Smith Jr. http://www.humanevents.com/search.php?author_name=W.+Thomas+Smith+Jr. http://www.humanevents.com/search.php?author_name=W.%20Thomas+Smith%20Jr. (more by this author) Posted 09/13/2011 ET Updated 09/13/2011 ET This is the 10th anniversary of what some have said is a seminal event in our national history. I would argue it was less a seminal event, and more an awakening as to the danger posed to the West since the 17th century when the armies of Kara Mustafa - capitalizing on the previous century's work of warlord Suleiman the Magnificent - attacked Christian armies across eastern Europe. Suleiman's and Mustafa's wars were Jihads against the West. And though stopped at the Gates of Vienna in 1683, that Jihad has never ceased. But the enemy has been unable to effectively prosecute the war against us; that is until the 20th century - particularly in the 1970s and 1980s - when we began to see the rise of Jihadist terrorist attacks against Christians and Jews throughout the world. And then - though we were warned for decades, and were even attacked in 1993 in New York- the single worst series of terrorist attacks to date struck us in New York, Northern Virginia, and Pennsylvania, and frankly in the skies over a much wider range before the four planes actually crashed. But we'll leave the discussion of Jihadist history - and the why - to the sociologists and political scientists, whose views are framed a bit more ideologically than mine. I'm a military analyst, and so I see things perhaps less in terms of ideology and politics, and more in terms of tactical or strategic application. Though I am not as black-and-white in my thinking as other military analysts, because my focus is special operations, and that requires a bit of right-and-left brained thinking, as does simply being a professional writer. But what I want to talk about - and share with you - today is what I witnessed and experienced in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, because I was there at Ground Zero. Not when Al Qaeda struck us. But within 48 hours after the attacks. I was there at the Red Cross recovery station where volunteers were taking DNA swabs from family members who were frantically searching for their missing loved ones. I was there as the trade center was burning, I watched as shopkeepers near Ground Zero stared at their damaged storefronts and the thick powdery gray ash and tiny strips of paper that covered everything several blocks away from the attacks. I watched as warplanes from the offshore carrier USS George Washington roared overhead, making wide sweeps over the city during their constant patrols, because - remember, at that time - we were anticipating equally devastating follow-up attacks. And I was physically at Ground Zero, standing between what was left of the two towers and the destroyed buildings adjacent to the towers. In the weeks to follow, when I was asked by television and newspaper reporters to describe what I saw, the one thing I could not get past was the fact that on TV, in the newspapers, and - today on the Internet (Remember, in 2001, the Internet was nothing like as mainstream as it is today) - the one-dimensional images we all saw (and continue to see), did not (and do not) begin to illustrate how horrible it really was. It really was impossible to adequately describe. And I won't attempt to describe it here either. By 2001, I already had experienced battlefields as a journalist overseas, and I was destined to witness terrible battlefields during the Iraq War. But never had I stood on such a terrible field as that which I stood on in lower Manhattan in the middle of Sept 2001. The other thing - and perhaps the most important - was (and is) the question I've since been asked; Where was God on 9/11? Fortunately for me, I've had a special (and I think somewhat unique) relationship with God since I was a little boy. So the question was something that was easy for me. It didn't disturb me at all. It didn't shake my faith in the least. In fact, it enabled me to share God's love with others and be open - in a non-intrusive way - about what I knew (and know) to be several eternal truths about God. The answer; God was there on 9/11. And His glory was manifested in myriad ways that stood in stark contrast to the earthly hell of lower Manhattan on that day, and in the days and weeks after the attacks. And I'll get to that in a moment. First,we have to understand something about good and evil. God's love and infinite power doesn't mean that there is no darkness in the world. Darkness is simply the absence of light. Evil (which we equate with darkness) is the absence of good (which we equate with light). In fact, in a somewhat scientific sense - where fact is derived not from theory but is based on empirical data - we see it would be
[osint] Muslims Make Terrorist Dry Run on Frontier
I TOLD YOU SO! No Muslims should be permitted on any flights of any Western airline. B http://www.debbieschlussel.com/41986/media-blackout-yes-the-suspicious-dry-r un-passengers-on-frontier-flight-were-drum-roll-arabs/ September 12, 2011, - 1:41 pm Media Blackout: YES, the Suspicious Dry Run Passengers on Frontier Flight Were . . . (DRUM ROLL) ARABS http://www.debbieschlussel.com/41986/media-blackout-yes-the-suspicious-dry- run-passengers-on-frontier-flight-were-drum-roll-arabs/ By http://www.debbieschlussel.com Debbie Schlussel There’s been much mainstream media hype that passengers and crew “overreacted” to three fellow passengers who spent a long time in the bathrooms, yesterday, on http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/wayne_county/security-situation-with-fl ight-from-denver-to-metro-airport Frontier Airlines Flight 623 from San Diego to Detroit (with a stop in Denver). But it’s much more than “overreaction.” And it wasn’t a “make-out session” or sexual encounter as ABC News initially reported and http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/911-airplane-scare-fbi-bathroom-make-outs/sto ry?id=14501455 later admitted was false (the FBI claims that no two people were in the bathroom at the same time are contradicted by passengers-see below). http://www.debbieschlussel.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/frontierairlines. jpg http://www.debbieschlussel.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/frontierairlines.j pg islamiccrescentdistressflag.jpg In fact, what the media won’t tell you is that the three passengers in question were Arabs, two men and a woman (who, some reports say, wore a hijab-the Muslim headscarf for women). The three Muslim passengers got up at the same time, with two of them going into the bathroom at the rear of the plane and one of them going into the bathroom closer to the front of the plane. All three spent a very long time in bathrooms. An “extraordinarily long time” in the words of the captain and crew, who reported this to authorities, the reason the plane was met with a platoon of cops after it was diverted to an isolated area of the airport upon landing. How do I know all of this? Well, not from any mainstream media reports, which have shielded the “real victims of 9/11″-Muslims-from any mention in coverage of what happened on the Frontier plane. But, this morning, passenger named Patrick Pasfield was on popular Detroit morning radio show, “Drew and Mike.” He gave the details, as the Arab passengers were sitting not far behind him. When host Drew Lane asked him, “What did the passengers look like?,” Pasfield immediately responded, “they were Arabs.” It’s doubly suspicious that http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/911-airplane-scare-fbi-bathroom-make-outs/sto ry?id=14501455 three passengers on a flight from Los Angeles to New York engaged in the exact same pattern of behavior, with frequent and long trips to the bathroom. What are their names? Ahmed, Mohammed, and Hamida? And watch this video, below, of what the passengers described-very suspicous behavior, indeed. This isn’t the first time several Muslim passengers went to the bathroom at the same time in a terrorist dry run. We know that not long after the 9/11 attacks, a Northwest Airlines plane from Detroit carried several Syrian Muslim men who did the same thing. One of them was a known terrorist, and the Department of Homeland Security report from the investigation is so redacted, it’s clear something scary was going on that the government doesn’t want you to know about, lest you face the truth about Flying While Non-Muslim when there are Muslims on your plane. So, you tell me what else could possibly be going on here, other than a dry run or “probing the system” for a terrorist attack. Three Arabs go to the bathroom at the same time (two of them in one bathroom at a time-and not to have sex, because, hey, this is the virginal “Religion of Modesty,” right?). They occupy both bathrooms on opposite ends of the plane. They spend a long time in the bathrooms. A very long time. And they do it on the tenth anniversary of their religion’s attack on America using planes. They know better. They did this deliberately. And they are cold and calculating. They are at war against us. We are at . . . the mall and on the couch watching “E! True Hollywood Story” (or the Kim Kardashian multi-millionairess porn-star-in-white wedding). But, no worries, because Famous But Incompetent said they are innocent and were released without charges. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are being followed, now that they’ve been released. But I would be even less surprised if they were not being followed, and their names were entered into some meaningless FBI circular file, never to be shared with another agency or investigating member of law enforcement again. That’s the usual drill, ten years after 9/11. Nothing to see here. Move along. By the way, as you may recall, after the Undiebomeber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, failed in his mission
[osint] TURKEY'S THREAT TO ISRAEL'S NEW GAS RICHES
No challenge to the US. Obama will bow before the Muslims. B POLICYWATCH #1844 September 13, 2011 ANALYSIS OF NEAR EAST POLICY FROM THE SCHOLARS AND ASSOCIATES OF THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE TURKEY'S THREAT TO ISRAEL'S NEW GAS RICHES By Simon Henderson To read this PolicyWatch on our website, go to: http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=3397 ** Ankara's warning that Turkey will stop Israel from unilaterally exploiting gas resources in the eastern Mediterranean poses a direct challenge to U.S. policy. ** On September 8, Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Aljazeera that his government had taken steps to prevent Israel from unilaterally exploiting natural resources in the Mediterranean Sea. Israel has begun to declare that it has the right to act in exclusive economic areas in the Mediterranean, he stated, apparently citing Israeli plans to tap newly discovered offshore gas reserves. Israel will not be the owner of this right, he warned. In other remarks, Erdogan declared that the Turkish navy would protect future aid ships bound for Gaza in order to prevent a repetition of the 2010 flotilla incident, in which Israeli commandos killed nine activists attempting to break the blockade. These comments came just days after the release of a UN report condemning the deaths but justifying Israel's blockade -- a judgment that prompted Ankara to drastically reduce diplomatic relations between the two countries and freeze their substantial military cooperation and trade. By September 9, both governments seemed to be stepping back from a confrontation over any future humanitarian convoy. One Turkish official reportedly said that Erdogan had been misquoted and taken out of context, while Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu's office countered a media report attributed to the office of Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman about potentially supporting the terrorist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in its conflict with Turkey. Even so, the potentially more problematic issue of offshore natural gas rights looms large. The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea gives each country the right to exploit resources in an exclusive economic zone up to 200 nautical miles from its coastline, but maritime border agreements with neighboring states (including offshore neighbors located less than 400 nautical miles away) still need to be negotiated. In the eastern Mediterranean, this issue came to the forefront after Israel discovered substantial offshore gas reserves estimated to exceed current consumption levels several times over. Such large-scale findings offer the probability of substantial energy independence and likely surpluses for export. Neighboring Egypt is already a key player in the international natural gas market, while Lebanon and Cyprus are considered geologically likely to have significant offshore reserves of their own. The first exploratory drilling off Cyprus is set to begin next month -- a development that could result in even more threatening rhetoric from Ankara. ROLE OF THE CYPRUS DISPUTE Although Erdogan's September 8 comments conflated the gas and Gaza blockade issues, the real key to understanding Turkey's current squabbles with Israel is the unresolved dispute over Cyprus. In the 1960s and 1970s, tensions between the island's Greek-speaking and Turkish-speaking communities -- backed, respectively, by Athens and Ankara -- often seemed a greater danger to regional peace than differences between Israelis and Palestinians. Since 1974, when Turkey sent troops to the island to support the Turkish Cypriot community and block any union between the majority Greek Cypriots and Greece, the island has been divided, with UN forces interposed between the two sides. Frequent attempts at reconciliation have failed. With Ankara's backing, Turkish Cypriots have established the notionally independent Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which is bolstered by the presence of more than 30,000 Turkish soldiers. Yet no country other than Turkey has recognized the TRNC -- a fact that continues to infuriate Ankara. Meanwhile, the Greek-majority Republic of Cyprus has become a member of the European Union and is considered to represent the entire island. The recent discoveries of natural gas under the eastern Mediterranean seabed have seemingly prompted Ankara to renew its diplomatic campaign on behalf of Turkish Cypriots. Erdogan reportedly stated last week: Turkey, as a guarantor of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, has taken steps in the area [of the offshore resources], and it will decisively pursue its right to monitor international waters in the east Mediterranean. Such a policy could put Turkey at odds with all the littoral governments of the area, from the Republic of Cyprus to Israel, Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria: * CYPRUS. Ankara is annoyed that the Republic of Cyprus signed a maritime border
[osint] SecDef Panetta: Allies Find Trust in US Challenging
With leadership like Obama and Panetta, it is hardly surprising. B http://tinyurl.com/6auk2cr September 09, 2011 SecDef Panetta: Allies Find Trust in US Challenging Panetta Assesses National Security Threats By Karen Parrish, AFPS: WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2011 - While terrorism remains a threat to national security, it is joined by cyber attacks, nuclear weapons capability and a number of rising powers among the world's nations, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said in an interview broadcast last night. http://www.defense.gov/DODCMSShare/NewsStoryPhoto/2011-09/scr_110906-F-RG14 7-736d.jpg Click photo for screen-resolution image Broadcast journalist Charlie Rose interviews Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta after the secretary's visit to the 9/11 Memorial site in New York, Sept. 6, 2011. Panetta discussed a variety of defense issues. DOD photo by Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jacob N. Bailey We continue to face threats from Iran and North Korea. We're living in a world where cybersecurity is now something to be concerned about, Panetta said in a televised interview with PBS' Charlie Rose. We also are living in a world in which there are rising powers, countries like China and Brazil and India, not to mention obviously Russia and others, that provide a challenge to us not only in trying to cooperate with them, but making sure that they don't undermine the stability of the world, he added. Panetta said his role in meeting those threats is leading the Defense Department in effective national protection. It's about being in charge of the services, our men and women in uniform who have to actually go out there and do the mission, the secretary said. In an era of persistent budget constraints, he said, defense must be more agile, both in quickly deployable forces and weapon systems and in more efficient management and procurement. We've got to be able to do all of this without breaking faith with those that put their lives on the line, ... who are the key to whether or not our defense system works, he added. The secretary said trust is key not only to effective defense leadership, but also to the United States' international relationships. Panetta said his counterparts in other nations tell him the most important element in cooperating with the United States is when we give our word, when we say we're going to do something, ... they have to trust that that's going to happen. We have to be a dependable alliance partner. The nation's troops have the same priority, he said: When we say we're going to provide certain benefits, we'll stick to it, [and] that we will care for them if they're wounded, that we will be there for them because of what they're doing to try to protect this country. Such trust is especially critical as the military's missions remain a crucial stabilizing factor in the world, he said. While the U.S. drawdown in Iraq remains on track, the secretary said, the real question remains whether the United States will maintain a noncombat troop presence there, and if so, what kind of presence it will be. He noted that Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki has indicated he wants Iraq to have some kind of training assistance from the United States after Dec. 31, when all U.S. troops are scheduled to be out of Iraq in accordance with a 2008 agreement between the two countries. And so the issue of what that will look like, how many will be there, is something that has to be negotiated with the Iraqis, Panetta said. Meanwhile, Iran continues to try to exert a very, very large influence on events in Iraq, he noted. They clearly continue to provide weaponry to Shiia extremist groups, he said. They clearly try to exert pressure on the government of Iraq. ... And the end result is that we remain very concerned that Iran ... tries to undermine the stability of Iraq and its future. Panetta said he has spoken directly to Maliki about his concerns, and the Iraqi president shares them. We cannot tolerate having Iranians provide weapons to extremists to kill Americans. That is not tolerable, the secretary said. And he agrees. Maliki has made that case to Iran, and Iraqi forces have conducted operations against groups working to transfer weapons from Iran to Iraq, Panetta said. I really can't complain about the cooperation we've gotten from the Iraqis in assisting us to try to go after these groups that are attacking our forces, the secretary added. In Afghanistan, International Security Assistance Force Commander Marine Corps Gen. John R. Allen and U.S. Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker make a good team, the secretary said, working effectively with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Afghans in trying to make sure the best policies are in place. ISAF operations in Afghanistan have seriously weakened the Taliban, Panetta added. We expected a greater offensive this year than took place, he said. And I think in large measure the reason it didn't take place is ... we have reduced the influence of the Taliban,
[osint] RE: Imam Rauf's Da'wa Spin on 9/11
The WSJ gives editorial space to the master of Taqiyyah Feisel Rauf (Ground Zero ). He espouses for American readers his hope for reconciliation of all faiths..read the critique below by Jerry Gordon ..but first ..here are the exact words Rauf used to praise Khamenei's election and the 1979 Revolution...That's when are Embassy was seized for 444 days. The U.S. State Department sent him on his recent trip to the mid-East to mollify our allies. It's hard to find out what Rauf is saying abroad-or even to whom. But to get a sense of what he might be saying, here's a statement he posted on the website of his Cordoba Initiative http://www.cordobainitiative.org/?q=content/what-president-obama-should-say -about-irans-election in June, 2009, after the suppression of the Green movement in Iran, advising President Obama on the position he should take: President Obama said many of the right things as the turmoil surrounding the outcome of the Iranian election unfolded. After Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, spoke Friday, Obama has an opportunity to make an additional crucial pointFriday, Khameini reaffirmed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the winner. And he made clear that this election was not a referendum on the foundations ofthe Islamic RepublicAfter the revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took the Shiite concept of the Rightly Guided Imam and created the idea of Vilayet-i-faqih, which means the rule of the jurisprudent. This institutionalizes the Islamic rule of law. The Council of Guardians serves to ensure these principles[President Obama] should say his administration respects many of the guiding principles of the 1979 revolution -- to establish a government that expresses the will of the people; a just government, based on the idea of Vilayet-i-faqih, that establishes the rule of law. From: Beowulf [mailto:beow...@westerndefense.net] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 9:31 AM To: grendelrep...@yahoogroups.com Subject: Imam Rauf's Da'wa Spin on 9/11 http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/37764#CurDomainURL #/blog.cfm The Iconoclast Saturday, 10 September 2011 Imam Rauf's Da'wa Spin on 9/11 by Jerry Gordon http://www.newenglishreview.org/images/clear.gif Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) chose to publish an op-ed by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of the Cordoba Initiative entitled http://online.wsj.com/.../SB100014240531119035969045765146027321 A Call to All Religious Moderates. The sub-heading for his WSJ op ed was building a global coalition will not be easy. Moderation is a dangerous place to be. We have drawn attention http://www.newenglishreview.org/Jerry_Gordon/Victory_Over_Islamic_I... to Imam Rauf's project to build an imposing 13 story mosque, posing as an interfaith cultural center at 51 Park Place, near the hallowed Ground Zero of the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attack. You may recall what Imam Rauf said in a CBS 60 minutesinterview http://islamicity.com/video/ch20/CBS60Minutes.ram shortly after 9/11, on September 30, 2001 The attacks were a reaction against the U.S. government politically, where we espouse principles of democracy and human rights, [yet] . ally ourselves with oppressive regimes in many of these countries. . [U.S.] policies were an accessory to the crime that happened. As noted by Alyssa Lappen in her Pajamas Media dossier http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-ground-zero-mosque-developer-muslim-brothe rhood-roots-radical-dreams/3/ on Rauf: Not the crimes Muslims committed: the crime that happened. He continued: In . the most direct sense, Osama bin Laden was made in the USA (28). https://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dc9pbjgh_3919c599pjgs#_edn31 David Beamer, father of Flight 93 hero, David, took the prospect of Imam Rauf's Ground Zero Mosque project to task in our interview http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/96188/sec_id/96188 with him published in the September NER. Note Beamer's response: Gordon: Why have you opposed the construction of the 51 Park Place Ground Zero Mosque in lower Manhattan? Beamer: The notion that we should somehow welcome with open cooperative arms our enemy and allow them to construct a victory symbol, which they see as an absolute victory, namely the destruction of thousands of Americans in the middle of one of our great cities, is to me unconscionable. The notion that it's a center for interfaith outreach and communication is just another Islamic lie. It clearly is indicative of our Islamic enemy to foster deceit, to lie and to play to our general feelings of liberty and tolerance. Interfaith outreach is an oxymoron when it comes to the goals and objective of Islam. There is no such thing. The bumper stickers that I see some naive Americans sporting on their cars, coexist with every religious symbol known to man, do not understand something. Coexistence is an anathema to the ultimate goals of Islam which is to dominate planet earth. Now let's look
[osint] Explosion rocks nuclear plant in southern France
How many Muslims are employed there? It was a Muslim Algerian who blew up the Toulouse Arsenal. B http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/09/ap-explosion -rocks-nuclear-plant-in-southern-france/1?csp=breakingnews Sep 12, 2011 1 dead in blast at French nuclear plant, but no leak reported By Douglas Stanglin http://content.usatoday.com/topics/reporter/Douglas+Stanglin , USA TODAY Updated 32m ago http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/on-deadline/2011/09/12/plant x-large.jpg A partial view of the nuclear plant in Marcoule near Nimes taken on October 20, 2003. Frnech media today reported an explosion at the plant in southern France. javascript:void(0) CAPTION By Dominique Faget, AFP/Getty Images The French nuclear safety body says an explosion has rocked a nuclear plant in southern France, the Associated Press reports. French media report at least one death, but no immediate radioactive leakage to the outside. Update at 8:28 a.m. ET: The Associated Press quotes the French nuclear safety body as saying one person has been killed in the explosion of an oven at Marcoule nuclear plant, but there have been no radioactive leaks. Update at 8:22 a.m. ET: Le Figaro says the site, which specializes in the treatment of radiological material, is operated by SOCODEI. Update at 8:10 a.m. ET: The Associated Press quotes Evangelia Petit of the Agency for Nuclear Safety as confirming the explosion but declining to provide further details. Officials in the Gard region also confirmed Monday's explosion but also said they could not give any more information. The Marcoule site is located in Langedoc Roussillon, in southern France, near the Mediterranean Sea. It is also near the city of Nimes. Update at 8:03 a.m. ET: Le Figaro quotes a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Commission http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2011/09/12/97001-20110912FILWWW00474-expl osion-sur-le-site-nucleaire-de-marcoule.php as saying that right now there has been no radioactive leak to the outside. Update at 7:57 a.m. ET: The BBC quotes http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14883521 Le Figaro newspaper as saying one person was killed and three injured in the explosion following a fire in a storage site for radioactive waste. The death told was reported by France 3. The BBC also quotes media as saying there is a risk of a radioactive leak from the accident, which occurred in France's Gard region. The BBC says the site is involved with the decommissioning of nuclear facilities, and operates a pressurized water reactor used to produce tritium. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] This is why I love Texas. So Practical
This is why I love Texas. So Practical A Tale of Two States California: The Governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks the Governor's dog, then bites the Governor. 1. The Governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie Bambi and then realizes he should stop because the coyote is only doing what is natural. 2. He calls animal control . Animal Control captures the coyote and bills the State $200 testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating it. 3. He calls a veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and bills the State $200 testing it for diseases. 4. The Governor goes to hospital and spends $3,500 getting checked for diseases from the coyote and on getting his bite wound bandaged. 5. The running trail gets shut down for 6 months while Fish Game conducts a $100,000 survey to make sure the area is now free of dangerous animals. 6. The Governor spends $50,000 in state funds implementing a coyote awareness program for residents of the area. 7. The State Legislature spends $2 million to study how to better treat rabies and how to permanently eradicate the disease throughout the world. 8. The Governor's security agent is fired for not stopping the attack. The State spends $150,000 to hire and train a new agent with additional special training re: the nature of coyotes. 9. PETA protests the coyote's relocation and files a $5 million suit against the State. TEXAS : The Governor of Texas is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A Coyote jumps out and attacks his dog. 1. The Governor shoots the coyote with his State-issued pistol and keeps jogging. The Governor has spent $0.50 on a .45 ACP hollow point cartridge. 2. The Buzzards eat the dead coyote. And that, my friends, is why California is broke and Texas is not. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] World Trade Center Facts that Cannot be Ignored
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10355/pub_detail.asp September 10, 2011 World Trade Center Facts that Cannot be Ignored Joe Wright http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20110910_WTCnew2.jpg Hallowed Ground versus property rights. Just because someone happens to die on another's property, that does not grant them any rights with respect to how the property is used. Of course you can exercise your freedom of speech and try to persuade the owner to do something you desire, but you must recognize that you have no rights in the matter whatsoever. The only parties who have the right to build on the WTC site are the Port Authority which owns the land, Larry Silverstein who holds the lease for the WTC itself and Westfield America which held the lease for retail space. Listening but not hearing. The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) sponsored several Listening to The City (LTTC) events. But if something was said that they didn't like, they chose not to hear it. For example: Well over half the people at the Javits Center meeting rejected the LMDC's six proposals for new buildings on the WTC site. Looks too much like Albany, many derisively said of the plans. During the online LTTC program, 60% voted that the towers should be rebuilt as tall or taller than the original towers. In spite of these votes, the LMDC refused to consider any proposal for the building of towers as tall or taller. They listened, but they did not hear. That is, unless you were a memorialist. Memorials. Proposals ranged from dedicating the entire 16 acre site of the WTC as a memorial to not building a memorial at all. The LMDC, in this case, chose to listen to and hear only the memorial advocates. They turned a deaf ear to anyone who said there should be no memorial. And they listened with near deafness to anyone who said the memorial should be in proportion to the numbers killed and injured. Alexander Garvin, LMDC Vice President for Planning, Design and Development, remarked at a NY1 Town Hall Meeting, I'll guarantee you that the entire site will be a memorial. While this might not have been meant to be taken literally, it is an indication of the narrow mindedness and shallow thinking of the LMDC. They lived up to the popular interpretation of their name, the Leave Manhattan Destroyed Corporation. George E. Pataki, New York State Governor at the time, guaranteed that the footprints of the twin towers would not be built on. Ex-mayor Rudolf Giuliani caved to the victims' families and said he wanted the entire site to be a memorial. All of this even though residents who live around the WTC pleaded that their neighborhood not be turned into a cemetery, that they not be reminded of the horror of 9/11 everyday for the rest of their lives when passing by or through the site. Memorials that have been built, have been discrete and in proportion. None have consumed the entire battlefield. Over 60,000 were killed in the Vietnam War. Compare that number to the space occupied by that war's memorial. Consider Hiroshima where a modest memorial was built and the entire city rebuilt. Consider the Pentagon which was made whole and not insanely memorialized. To talk of anything other than a modest WTC memorial is to deal in the absurd. It is also absurd to allow the 3,000 some victims' families to dictate the future of Lower Manhattan and thus the entire city. No one will work in a WTC tower rebuilt as tall or taller. Some won't. So what? Jonathan Hakala, whose company was on the 77th Floor, said he would return. And so would thousands of others. How many people have refused to work in existing tall buildings? Some did. So what? There's no need for all the office space in this depressed economy. Such optimism! When the original towers were built, there was no demand. The Empire State Building was empty for years as was Rockefeller Center. Construction wasn't halted. In New York, we build on speculation and with confidence that we will succeed. Besides, new twin towers wouldn't be ready for occupancy for years to come. Should we just bury our heads in the sand? Not so very long before the 9/11 terrorist attack, local politicians and representatives from New York City's biggest businesses met to determine how to secure the City's ability to grow in the face of the steadily diminishing supply of office space. Now that the WTC and its 11 million square feet of office space has disappeared from the market, doesn't this greatly exacerbate this problem? Rebuilding the towers would create new targets for terrorists. This is said as if there are no other tall buildings that could be targeted. What about the Sears Tower in Chicago or the Empire State Building? Should we tear them down because they could be targets? Ron DeVito of Team Twin Towers said, You can't walk two blocks in NYC without seeing a building that could be a
[osint] Islam the Doctrine of Perpetual War
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/40227 Jihad the Doctrine of Perpetual War CFP http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/print-friendly/40227 I. September 11th, 2001 Lest we forget, during our mourning for the ten year anniversary of the 9/11 holocaust and its victims, we still battle violent Muslim Jihadists. In fact, there is not only a Muslim holy war being waged upon the battlefields of Afghanistan, but also in the murkier shadows where terrorists eviscerate their unsuspecting victims. But what is Jihad? The doctrine of Jihad has been both debated publicly and also ignored in the years after the 9/11 attacks. Yet it has a set meaning and use since Muhammad's days, despite much propagandizing and obfuscations by its apologists. Further, any group opposed by violent Islam shall be permanently attacked since Islamic radicals demand submission or death. Jihad, the Western idea of the Just War, and September Eleventh are the topic of this brief essay, lest we forget the cause of the terrorist butchery. It is a matter of the most solemn remembrance that we recall what happened on September 11th, 2001 in New York City, NY, Washington, DC, and Pennsylvania. As one source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks describes it: The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated suicide attacks upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. area on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The hijackers intentionally crashed two planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City; both towers collapsed within two hours. Hijackers crashed a third plane into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. A fourth jet, United Airlines Flight 93, crashed into a field near Shanksville, PA, before it could reach its intended target in Washington, D.C., after the passengers attempted to take control. Nearly 3,000 died in the attacks. II. Two World Views: Western Islamic A. Muslim World View: Fundamentalism with no Reformation or Enlightenment To understand the doctrine of Jihad, we must first realize how differently the Muslim world view is from that of the West. Briefly, in the aftermath of the fall of the Roman Empire, the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment, the West developed a liberal manner of dealing with politics, government, and religion. The root word and idea were liberty, or that freedom should be allowed people in what they believed and how they acted, as long as they did not disturb others. This became the classical liberal doctrine of tolerance in the midst of free expression of belief. The result was the Social Contract which delivered peace as a side benefit of allowing matters of conviction to remain private choices. This resulted, ultimately, in the founding of America upon the classic expressions of political liberalism-the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, along with the Bill of Rights. The results have revolutionized the world. On the alternative, Islam has never experienced a Reformation, and is therefore still highly impacted by the values of 7th century Arabia. Whereas the West developed the nation-state theory of sovereign lands, doctrinaire Muslim writers never countenanced such an idea. Instead they taught the Quranic view of society and religion, where church and state are one, no democracy is possible, and the land is ruled by a strong man. B. Essential Elements of Islamic Convictions First, the law stands at the heart of Islam, not the religion, according to Joseph Schacht x-msg://5/The%20Price%20of%20Liberty%20Is%20Eternal%20Vigilance:%20Thomas%2 0Jefferson . He wrote, The sacred law of Islam, the Shari'a, occupies a central place in Muslim society, and its history runs parallel with the history of Islamic civilization. It has often been said that Islamic law represents the core and kernel of Islam itself and, certainly, religious law is incomparably more important in the religion of Islam than theology. Second, there is no doctrine of practical separation of mosque and state, even if some Muslim states have practiced such. Third, there are two possible spheres of reality-the lands of the believers versus that of the unbelievers. Fourth, only believers hold unmitigated rights of any kind, but only when they hold tight to the one true faith. C. House of God v. House of War The practical outcome of these Muslim beliefs is to turn the world into two opposing, and perpetually antagonistic spheres-House of Allah versus the House of War. This fact then explains why true Islam and those who refuse to accept the teachings of Muhammad must always remain at odds. As Bernard Lewis describes this Muslim idea in The Multiple Identities of the Middle East http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0805211187/theamericanisraeA/ : The world is divided into the House of Islam and the House of War, theDar al-Islam and
[osint] Defeated by Moderate Muslims
According to Islam, there is NO such thing as a moderate or radical Muslim. B http://sheikyermami.com/2011/09/12/defeated-by-moderate-muslims/ Defeated by Moderate Muslims by sheikyermami on September 12, 2011 Muslim Victimhood Grievance Theater in Canada Just like Japanese (when they're not like Jews) Muslim spokesman likens the Muslim's treatment with that of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War. Popat also says the Homeland Security Act in the United States continues to victimize Muslims. (source) http://www.theprovince.com/vigil+Muslims/5384551/story.html Not so Japanese: U.K.: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/09/uk-muslims-against-crusades-burns-america n-flag-in-front-of-us-embassy-breaks-moment-of-silence-with.html Muslims Against Crusades burns American flag in front of U.S. embassy, breaks moment of silence with chanting over megaphone. http://sheikyermami.com/wp-content/uploads/MAC_ThugsUK.jpgIslamic supremacism, triumphalism, and hurling insults against the soldiers who defend the rights they have chosen to mock and abuse. 9/11 anniversary: Muslim protesters burn US flag outside embassy in London, by Andy Bloxam for the Telegraph, September 11: http://sheikyermami.com/wp-content/uploads/MAC_ThugsUK.jpg http://sheikyermami.com/wp-content/uploads/uksep11-550x365.jpg http://sheikyermami.com/wp-content/uploads/uksep11-550x365.jpg Abdul Sallam, 41, who was waving a sign that read Keep The Silence, travelled down to London from his home in Glasgow to show the strength of his feelings. He said: I'm a Muslim. What they're doing is bringing shame on all Muslims. This is not part of the teachings of Islam. If the moderate Muslims all came out and spoke out, that would defeat them. (by Andy Bloxam for the Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/september-11-attacks/8755834/911- anniversary-Muslim-protesters-burn-US-flag-outside-embassy-in-London.html ) I guess we need some moderate Christians, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists to get their act together and defeat them before we rely on the 'moderate' Muslims to rescue us. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Ugly Truths, Ten Years Later
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10357/pub_detail.asp September 10, 2011 Ugly Truths, Ten Years Later Vito Esposito Print This javascript:%20printVersion() E-mail This javascript:%20emailVersion() javascript:void(0); http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/images/share.png ShareThis javascript:void(0); Comments (1) http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/comments.asp?id=10357 http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20110910_Stowerstrike.jpg To borrow a phrase from FDR to describe September 11, 2001; It's a day that will live in infamy. 10 years ago America was savagely attacked by 19 Muslim terrorists. We know society does not like to hear the truth, 19 Muslim men hijacked four U.S. airplanes on a clear, crisp, September Tuesday morning. Two planes hijacked by Muslim terrorists are driven callously into the Twin Towers in NYC. One plane is flown directly into the Pentagon and one plane with the help of heroic Americans, who knew America was under attack that faithful September morning, rushed the cockpit of United Flight 93 and gave their lives in Shanksville, PA. Shouts of Allahu Akbar are later heard from the recovered Black Box recordings. Sadly, the four attacks killed over 3,000 Americans that fateful September morning. 3,000 Americans, who were someone's husband, wife, mother, father, son, daughter, relative or friend. It was America's most serious invasion since Pearl Harbor. In the immediate aftermath of American Airlines Flight 11 being driven into the North Tower and United Flight 175 being driven directly into the South Tower; the result was mayhem, destruction of property and loss of human life. Within minutes, scores of people working in the Twin Towers leaped to their death, instead of succumbing to the horrific fires and being burned alive. Americans jumped to their death from as high up as 105 stories. How could this happen? Why would this happen? Who could be so cold blooded, inhumane and uncivilized to devise this horrific terroristic act? Within hours of these vicious attacks on America, we would learn the culprit(s) responsible. Usama Bin Laden, a devout Muslim and leader of the terrorist group Al- Qaeda. As the Quran commands: Instill fear into the hearts of the disbelievers! Ten years later, many Americans still have not awakened to the realty of what September 11, 2001 meant to America and what the attacks mean to the spread of Islam in the Western Democracies. The signs for a 9/11 style attack and who would terrorize America were there for years. In 1993 Al-Qaeda, led by Usama Bin Laden, bombed the World Trade Center in an attempt to bring down the symbol of Capitalism. In 1998, two US Embassies were brutally attacked; one in Nairobi, Kenya and one in Tanzania, Dar Es Salaam, 258 dead and 5,000 wounded. The USS Cole then attacked on October 12, 2000 in the Yemini Port of Aden - 17 U.S. Soldiers killed, 39 injured. Why did we not heed the warnings? 9-11 did provide an inspiration for some Americans to learn about Islam, to read and study the Quran. Is Islam really the Religion of Peace, as we are being misled by Muslim clerics? As we read the Quran, we are shocked at the violence Allah commands Muslims to inflict upon non-Muslims? Is this really the Religion of Peace? The so-called Religion of Peace, is not peaceful towards Infidels, Kuffars and Polytheists. Just read Chapter 9 of the Quran and you will understand where the Fundamental/Orthodox Islamists get their jihadist values. Since 9-11-2001 America has endured and disrupted many attempted attacks by Muslim men loyal to Allah, Muhammad and the Quran on our soil. Abdul Hakeem Mohammad guns down two American soldiers at a military recruiting center in Arkansas; Nidal Hassan - Major in the U.S. Army - terrorizes Ft. Hood. Before gunning down 13 Fellow soldiers and wounding over 30 soldiers, he stands on a table and yells Allahu Akbar, then pulls the trigger! U.S. Law Enforcement thwarts attempted attacks by the Ft. Dix 6, Faisal Shahzad, the Boyd Family's attempted attack on Ft. Bragg, just to name a few. Since 9-11-2001 we've sadly learned about Islamic honor killings, infecting the American way of life; Muzzammil Hassan co-owner of the Islamic Bridges TV Station in Buffalo, NY, decapitates his wife for wanting a divorce. Amina and Sara Said teenaged sisters gunned down by their Muslim father, January 1, 2008 for being TOO WESTERNIZED 20 year old Noor Almaleki was run down by her own father Faleh Hassan Almaleki in a Peoria, AZ parking lot for being Too Westernized, and the list goes on .. from the Religion of Peace! 10 years on, in the aftermath of 9-11-2001 have we Americans learned anything about the Religion of Peace? Are devout Muslims assimilating into the American Society? Are Americans more consumed with Political Correctness and multiculturalism that has blinded us to the advancement of
[osint] 9/11 - What a Difference a Decade Makes
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10347/pub_detail.asp September 10, 2011 9/11 - What a Difference a Decade Makes Shari Goodman Print This javascript:%20printVersion() E-mail This javascript:%20emailVersion() javascript:void(0); http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/images/share.png ShareThis javascript:void(0); Comments (3) http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/comments.asp?id=10347 http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20110910_Groundviewup.jpg It was only a short ten years ago that we in America suffered the worst terror attack upon our soil. Nineteen Islamists murdered 3000 Americans that day. The murderers were following Quranic verse (2:191-193) And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution (of Muslims) is worse than slaughter (of non-believers)but if desist, then lo! Allah is forgiving and merciful. And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah. This verse is just one of over a hundred verses that command Allah's followers to wage war upon the unbelievers. Since 9/11 there have been over 17,000 Islamic terrorist attacks worldwide with over 30 attacks here at home. While the fear of terrorism continues there is another stealth civilizational jihad that is taking place under our radar that is much more insidious and perhaps far more dangerous. The Muslim Brotherhood under the guise of dozens of Islamic civil rights groups have infiltrated all of our major institutions from education, textbooks, law enforcement, our judicial system, the media, the military, Homeland Security, the State Department, Congress, and even the White House. Their goal is to transform our Constitutional Republic to a Sharia compliant Caliphate as stated in a 1991 strategy paper for the Brotherhood found in the Virginia home of an un-indicted co-conspirator and presented as evidence during the Holy Land Foundation trial, the largest terror-funding case in U.S. history. The Ikhwan (another word for Brotherhood) must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions. A decade later they have succeeded far beyond most Americans' imagination. In Dearborn, Michigan and Philadelphia Americans have been arrested for preaching the gospel on public sidewalks because it offends Muslim sensibilities. In Minneapolis, Somali taxi drivers refuse to transport anyone with a dog or alcohol because it too offends their Muslim sensibilities. Footbaths and prayer rooms have been installed at numerous American universities and airports to accommodate an increasing Muslim population. In Toronto, regular Islamic prayer led by an Imam is permitted within a public school and the cities of San Diego, Dallas, Dearborn, and New York have instituted recess time during the school day for Islamic prayer. Particularly troubling are the 50 appellate court cases in 23 states which involved a conflict between Sharia Law and our American state laws that were adjudicated in favor of Sharia. Muslim women and children involved in these cases were seeking equal protection under our laws, but were denied their rights when Sharia was applied. Within our educational system, The American Textbook Council found that many political and religious groups try to use the textbook process to their advantage, but the deficiencies in Islam-related lessons are uniquely disturbing. They found that History textbooks present an incomplete and confected view of Islam that misrepresents its foundations and challenges to international security. Our American universities, once champions of free thought and without left-wing bias, have been disturbingly influenced by foreign funds. Saudi Arabia has spent nearly 70 billion since 1979 on overseas aid with two-third of it on a campaign to spread Wahhabism across the world. Many of our leading universities (Harvard, John Hopkins, U.C. Santa Barbara among others) have been the beneficiaries. Is it any wonder that Jewish students in particular are finding themselves in hostile environments on many of today's college campuses. Many of our financial institutions have been compromised through the use of Sharia Finance. Numerous banks and financial institutions have adopted this practice which forbids interest earnings or interest payment on loans. Since Sharia requires 2% donations of earnings to Islamic charities, such donations are ultimately used to fund terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah. Sheikh Yusaf al-Qaradawi (who moonlights as a spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood) has famously promoted Shariah-compliant finance as jihad with money. It boggles the mind that this
